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 Guyana and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Swell Maps to the disco 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Minutemen,
B.T. Express,
The Gun Club,
Flash Fearless,
The Move,
Davy DMX,
Silicon Teens,
Aswad,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Cell,
The Seeds,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultra Naté,
ABC,
Danielle Patucci,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Swans,
Stetsasonic,
The Cowsills,
Eddi Front,
China Crisis,
Shoche,
Negative Approach,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy Collins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Janne Schatter,
Average White Band,
Index,
Roxette,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bobby Sherman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Kinks,
Cal Tjader,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Associates,
Neu!,
Jerry's Kids,
Drive Like Jehu,
Man Parrish,
Q and Not U,
Television Personalities,
The Trojans,
Warsaw,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roxy Music,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Essential Logic,
Jeff Lynne,
Siglo XX,
Fear,
The Invisible,
OOIOO,
Matthew Bourne,
Accadde A,
Blossom Toes,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.