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 Spain and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonic Youth to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
JFA,
The Motions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Archie Shepp,
Camberwell Now,
The Tremeloes,
Schoolly D,
Liliput,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Eli Mardock,
Black Pus,
Niagra,
Desert Stars,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun Ra,
Junior Murvin,
Aswad,
The Evens,
K-Klass,
The Angels of Light,
Gang of Four,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacques Brel,
Gichy Dan,
Khruangbin,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Cosmic Jokers,
La Düsseldorf,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Rundgren,
The Names,
Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
Groovy Waters,
Ludus,
FM Einheit,
Y Pants,
Zapp,
kango's stein massive,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Accadde A,
Quando Quango,
Tears for Fears,
The Happenings,
Lakeside,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Negative Approach,
Silicon Teens,
Lungfish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Zero Boys,
Lou Christie,
Prince Buster,
Dennis Brown,
Marmalade,
Echospace,
The Busters,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.