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 Belize and from Edmonton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
Tommy Roe,
Pagans,
Ponytail,
Pulsallama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Derrick May,
R.M.O.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Main Source,
Ituana,
Arab on Radar,
U.S. Maple,
Kenny Larkin,
Suburban Knight,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maleditus Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Organ,
New Age Steppers,
Youth Brigade,
X-102,
Leonard Cohen,
Slick Rick,
Little Man,
Amon Düül II,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cecil Taylor,
Liliput,
Chrome,
The Evens,
The Gun Club,
Young Marble Giants,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alphaville,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Walker Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
Rites of Spring,
Mo-Dettes,
The Smoke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warsaw,
Flipper,
LL Cool J,
Mandrill,
Boz Scaggs,
David McCallum,
Inner City,
Sight & Sound,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.