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 Namibia and from London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 The Mighty Diamonds to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
John Cale,
Lou Reed,
Hot Snakes,
Grauzone,
The Invisible,
Supertramp,
Flash Fearless,
Magma,
Gichy Dan,
Hasil Adkins,
Deepchord,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Drexciya,
Audionom,
Niagra,
U.S. Maple,
John Foxx,
Roy Ayers,
Harmonia,
Cybotron,
UT,
Bang On A Can,
The Star Department,
Sam Rivers,
Scion,
Soft Machine,
Charles Mingus,
The Sonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
Technova,
Letta Mbulu,
Monolake,
Bootsy Collins,
June Days,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Reagan Youth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Rundgren,
EPMD,
Minor Threat,
Basic Channel,
Yazoo,
Suburban Knight,
Sonic Youth,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Slits,
The Red Krayola,
Outsiders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eli Mardock,
Jacob Miller,
X-101,
H. Thieme,
Barrington Levy,
The Moleskins,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.