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 Switzerland and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar 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 Susan Cadogan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Scion,
PIL,
Oblivians,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yusef Lateef,
Minny Pops,
Absolute Body Control,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
B.T. Express,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
ABBA,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Motions,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC,
Gong,
The Cramps,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Five Americans,
Adolescents,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
Gang Starr,
Magma,
Franke,
Zero Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ronan,
Mandrill,
Dorothy Ashby,
Michelle Simonal,
Fela Kuti,
The Doors,
The Associates,
Robert Görl,
Soft Cell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Subhumans,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
KRS-One,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sparks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Moody Blues,
Tomorrow,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
Mr. Review,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Warsaw,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.