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 Croatia and from Portland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Electric Prunes to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Green,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Josef K,
Flipper,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Index,
Quando Quango,
Iggy Pop,
Excepter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Skatalites,
The Golliwogs,
Sarah Menescal,
Lucky Dragons,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grauzone,
Gastr Del Sol,
Can,
K-Klass,
Harpers Bizarre,
Prince Buster,
Niagra,
Lindisfarne,
Soft Cell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alphaville,
X-101,
Althea and Donna,
Chrome,
The Pop Group,
Groovy Waters,
Erykah Badu,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Chris Corsano,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
Metal Thangz,
ABC,
Scion,
Ossler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Motorama,
Kaleidoscope,
Japan,
Lower 48,
Don Cherry,
The New Christs,
Anakelly,
Ultimate Spinach,
Supertramp,
Blossom Toes,
Siglo XX,
Roxette,
Animal Collective,
Joy Division,
Junior Murvin,
The Red Krayola,
Susan Cadogan,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.