Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Albania and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Radiohead to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
June Days,
Funky Four + One,
Gong,
Underground Resistance,
Avey Tare,
The Cowsills,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Newcleus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Almond,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yellowson,
Carl Craig,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crooked Eye,
Tubeway Army,
Black Sheep,
Guru Guru,
ABBA,
Davy DMX,
EPMD,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Grass Roots,
Idris Muhammad,
The New Christs,
Wings,
The Monochrome Set,
Outsiders,
Roxette,
CMW,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Motions,
The Selecter,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Sherman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hasil Adkins,
Sugar Minott,
The Detroit Cobras,
Joy Division,
Whodini,
Drive Like Jehu,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fall,
Siglo XX,
Soft Cell,
One Last Wish,
Lower 48,
Jacques Brel,
Excepter,
Babytalk,
Althea and Donna,
Massinfluence,
The Seeds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Bobby Womack,
Black Moon,
DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.