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 China 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Dennis Brown to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Con Funk Shun,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
Harmonia,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fire Engines,
cv313,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Average White Band,
Colin Newman,
Aaron Thompson,
Little Man,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
Lucky Dragons,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fad Gadget,
Mantronix,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nik Kershaw,
Mars,
Todd Rundgren,
Piero Umiliani,
Prince Buster,
Black Flag,
Tommy Roe,
Lakeside,
Jacob Miller,
Joe Smooth,
Erykah Badu,
Schoolly D,
The Velvet Underground,
Section 25,
Minnie Riperton,
Hasil Adkins,
Hashim,
Visage,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Suicide,
Danielle Patucci,
Bad Manners,
Kevin Saunderson,
Morten Harket,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
Charles Mingus,
Flamin' Groovies,
The American Breed,
The Residents,
Carl Craig,
Archie Shepp,
The Zeros,
Sound Behaviour,
The Black Dice,
Rites of Spring,
Pere Ubu,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.