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 Syria and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 E-Dancer 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Techniques,
LL Cool J,
the Germs,
Supertramp,
A Certain Ratio,
Boz Scaggs,
the Association,
Q65,
Masters at Work,
The Fugs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Drexciya,
Heaven 17,
Sight & Sound,
Bill Wells,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scientists,
E-Dancer,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
Tom Boy,
Eric Dolphy,
Sam Rivers,
Barry Ungar,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Mills,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Busters,
Massinfluence,
Agitation Free,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Letta Mbulu,
Danielle Patucci,
Gabor Szabo,
Chris & Cosey,
The Associates,
Gregory Isaacs,
Faust,
Mo-Dettes,
Wally Richardson,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Happenings,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Vogues,
U.S. Maple,
Agent Orange,
The Fuzztones,
Tears for Fears,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed,
Alton Ellis,
The Beau Brummels,
Bauhaus,
The Cramps,
Q and Not U,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.