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 Italy and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Victims to the crunk 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
LL Cool J,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Q65,
Niagra,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
The Modern Lovers,
Supertramp,
Half Japanese,
Khruangbin,
Babytalk,
Steve Hackett,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Underground Resistance,
Warsaw,
Cecil Taylor,
Marc Almond,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
Soft Machine,
Model 500,
The Smiths,
Chris Corsano,
Rotary Connection,
James White and The Blacks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
New Age Steppers,
Scratch Acid,
The Golliwogs,
The Pretty Things,
Scott Walker,
Rites of Spring,
Cameo,
The Fall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tomorrow,
Bluetip,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
The Last Poets,
Procol Harum,
Moby Grape,
Funkadelic,
The Real Kids,
Technova,
The Toasters,
The Kinks,
Tears for Fears,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Absolute Body Control,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scrapy,
Roxette,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Maurizio,
Pylon,
Sun Ra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.