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 Jamaica and from Toronto.
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 Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yazoo to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Ornette Coleman,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gap Band,
Al Stewart,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jacob Miller,
Pulsallama,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Moby Grape,
Loose Ends,
Fear,
Joensuu 1685,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
The Happenings,
Dennis Brown,
The Leaves,
Derrick May,
Junior Murvin,
Barrington Levy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Crooked Eye,
Make Up,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Funkadelic,
Lou Reed,
Black Pus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fatback Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Susan Cadogan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Porter Ricks,
MC5,
The Barracudas,
Lungfish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hardrive,
The Names,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Wake,
Big Daddy Kane,
Black Moon,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Holt,
Nik Kershaw,
Cymande,
Vladislav Delay,
Matthew Halsall,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.