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 Nauru and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Japan to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Tres Demented,
Lower 48,
Althea and Donna,
Cameo,
Fluxion,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ituana,
Duran Duran,
Slave,
Slick Rick,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vladislav Delay,
Franke,
Jacques Brel,
Lungfish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Andrew Hill,
The Slits,
Infiniti,
Beasts of Bourbon,
L. Decosne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Das Ding,
Scion,
Albert Ayler,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
David Bowie,
EPMD,
One Last Wish,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
Alphaville,
The Offenders,
Dead Boys,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
Babytalk,
The Doors,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Malaria!,
Ultra Naté,
Excepter,
Adolescents,
KRS-One,
Marshall Jefferson,
Interpol,
Inner City,
H. Thieme,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Copeland,
Suicide,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
Amon Düül II,
Ten City,
The Leaves,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.