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 Venezuela and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Coltrane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eurythmics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Blackbyrds,
Cluster,
John Foxx,
Scion,
June of 44,
John Lydon,
The Residents,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nirvana,
The Misunderstood,
Flash Fearless,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Seeds,
Radiohead,
Eric B and Rakim,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Jerry's Kids,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jandek,
Infiniti,
Rekid,
Peter and Kerry,
Tomorrow,
Alice Coltrane,
10cc,
Swans,
Marmalade,
Joe Finger,
Sight & Sound,
Bang On A Can,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Wyatt,
Oblivians,
B.T. Express,
Vladislav Delay,
Jimmy McGriff,
June Days,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Al Stewart,
The Motions,
kango's stein massive,
Absolute Body Control,
The Music Machine,
Suicide,
Average White Band,
The Fugs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Panda Bear,
Electric Prunes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Girls At Our Best!,
Clear Light,
Brand Nubian,
Soft Cell,
the Soft Cell,
Gang of Four,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.