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 Swaziland and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Godley & Creme to the grunge 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Junior Murvin,
Oneida,
Pantaleimon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Slick Rick,
Eurythmics,
Letta Mbulu,
The Evens,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Durutti Column,
Mary Jane Girls,
Model 500,
Hoover,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Minutemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Roger Hodgson,
The Monochrome Set,
Don Cherry,
the Normal,
Nas,
Smog,
The Offenders,
CMW,
Dave Gahan,
Wolf Eyes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
Talk Talk,
Cluster,
Maleditus Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
Gregory Isaacs,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
X-101,
Lightning Bolt,
Stetsasonic,
Man Parrish,
Pole,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yellowson,
This Heat,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barry Ungar,
Motorama,
Newcleus,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker,
Visage,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.