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 Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Moby Grape to the rap 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Make Up,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
Soul II Soul,
The Monochrome Set,
Kenny Larkin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Quando Quango,
Harry Pussy,
Thee Headcoats,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Clarke,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Christie,
Gabor Szabo,
A Certain Ratio,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Leaves,
Pere Ubu,
E-Dancer,
a-ha,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Patti Smith,
Dual Sessions,
D'Angelo,
Mark Hollis,
Tubeway Army,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Essential Logic,
Procol Harum,
Monks,
Public Enemy,
Echospace,
JFA,
Eric Dolphy,
OOIOO,
Barbara Tucker,
Bad Manners,
Surgeon,
The Fuzztones,
Smog,
The Seeds,
Spoonie Gee,
Scrapy,
Stiv Bators,
Aswad,
The Knickerbockers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nation of Ulysses,
Zero Boys,
Moss Icon,
Bobby Womack,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ken Boothe,
Newcleus,
Yaz,
Accadde A,
Blancmange,
Black Sheep,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.