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 Singapore and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Bill Wells,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Hardrive,
Yaz,
Joe Finger,
The Index,
Erasure,
Swans,
Nirvana,
Gastr Del Sol,
Trumans Water,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric Dolphy,
The Busters,
Prince Buster,
Mad Mike,
Lyres,
Brand Nubian,
Minor Threat,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
Sound Behaviour,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gregory Isaacs,
The J.B.'s,
The Five Americans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Minutemen,
Josef K,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Sheep,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pole,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scratch Acid,
Nas,
Faust,
China Crisis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blues Magoos,
EPMD,
kango's stein massive,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
Television Personalities,
Pulsallama,
10cc,
Sarah Menescal,
Rotary Connection,
Rod Modell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Public Enemy,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.