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 Indonesia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 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 Rhythm & Sound to the disco 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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stetsasonic,
Anakelly,
Godley & Creme,
Kevin Saunderson,
Basic Channel,
Royal Trux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deakin,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Iggy Pop,
The Doobie Brothers,
David Bowie,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bauhaus,
The Fortunes,
Brass Construction,
Cal Tjader,
Pylon,
Rekid,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Parry Music,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Robert Hood,
Neu!,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric Dolphy,
Model 500,
The Stooges,
The Misunderstood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Max Romeo,
Pussy Galore,
Ultravox,
Todd Rundgren,
Sound Behaviour,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DJ Sneak,
Scion,
Jacob Miller,
a-ha,
The Monks,
Television,
The Selecter,
Q and Not U,
Darondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
T.S.O.L.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roger Hodgson,
Sonic Youth,
Slave,
Radio Birdman,
Bronski Beat,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.