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 Grenada and from Edmonton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sonics to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alice Coltrane,
Donny Hathaway,
Hashim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lalo Schifrin,
Young Marble Giants,
Eli Mardock,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
The Barracudas,
Bush Tetras,
DJ Sneak,
Jerry's Kids,
Von Mondo,
Todd Terry,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül II,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
Television,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quantec,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bad Manners,
Kas Product,
The Mojo Men,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barrington Levy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Con Funk Shun,
Delta 5,
The Index,
Negative Approach,
Swans,
Audionom,
Laurel Aitken,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roxette,
Terry Callier,
James White and The Blacks,
The Slits,
Johnny Clarke,
Aaron Thompson,
KRS-One,
Mark Hollis,
Rekid,
Parry Music,
Agitation Free,
Flipper,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Grass Roots,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.