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 Norway and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Letta Mbulu,
The Walker Brothers,
Glenn Branca,
The Stooges,
Rites of Spring,
Amon Düül II,
Essential Logic,
Q and Not U,
The Index,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moss Icon,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Sherman,
The Knickerbockers,
Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men,
Agent Orange,
Faraquet,
The Tremeloes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soulsonic Force,
Pere Ubu,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Durutti Column,
The Trojans,
Pantytec,
Morten Harket,
Pantaleimon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
Intrusion,
Little Man,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gladiators,
Minnie Riperton,
Amazonics,
Pussy Galore,
Lou Christie,
Goldenarms,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Remains,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalann,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Moody Blues,
Mission of Burma,
Yaz,
DNA,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
Wolf Eyes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.