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 Taiwan and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Echospace to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Skaos,
These Immortal Souls,
Sugar Minott,
Shoche,
Moby Grape,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Iggy Pop,
Boz Scaggs,
Brothers Johnson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantytec,
Unwound,
Yellowson,
Nas,
Crash Course in Science,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
The Real Kids,
Gerry Rafferty,
Suburban Knight,
Ponytail,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Hood,
The Smoke,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kurtis Blow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonic Youth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eve St. Jones,
DJ Style,
The Red Krayola,
Country Teasers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camberwell Now,
Stetsasonic,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gun Club,
The Gladiators,
Basic Channel,
The Velvet Underground,
Silicon Teens,
Ohio Players,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pulsallama,
Lindisfarne,
Fat Boys,
Reuben Wilson,
Scott Walker,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.