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 Jordan and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
Radiohead,
Sight & Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blossom Toes,
The Sound,
Agent Orange,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Isaac Hayes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Trumans Water,
Ultimate Spinach,
Agitation Free,
Toni Rubio,
Tom Boy,
The Wake,
Joensuu 1685,
Letta Mbulu,
Los Fastidios,
Quadrant,
Oblivians,
Marine Girls,
the Association,
The Residents,
Erasure,
KRS-One,
Panda Bear,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers,
X-101,
Ken Boothe,
Mantronix,
Parry Music,
Faust,
Amon Düül II,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
ABBA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Move,
Hoover,
David Axelrod,
Bush Tetras,
Sister Nancy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tears for Fears,
Mark Hollis,
Gang Green,
Josef K,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Hutcherson,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.