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 Senegal and from Paris.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Smog to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Bobby Womack,
Organ,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cure,
New Age Steppers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Franke,
Charles Mingus,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rapeman,
Livin' Joy,
Shuggie Otis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
48th St. Collective,
Michelle Simonal,
La Düsseldorf,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Half Japanese,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Tropical Tobacco,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Sheep,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marine Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Terry Callier,
Massinfluence,
Minnie Riperton,
Scan 7,
The Toasters,
The Young Rascals,
Flipper,
Grey Daturas,
Gregory Isaacs,
Motorama,
Section 25,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Prunes,
Bootsy Collins,
The Wake,
Infiniti,
the Normal,
Eric Copeland,
Sound Behaviour,
The Busters,
The Index,
Groovy Waters,
The Evens,
Albert Ayler,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pulsallama,
Lower 48,
The Durutti Column,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.