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 Tuvalu and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bronski Beat to the dance 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terry Callier,
Lindisfarne,
Goldenarms,
Darondo,
Colin Newman,
Malaria!,
Visage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funkadelic,
Mad Mike,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Invisible,
Marc Almond,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Swans,
Tim Buckley,
The J.B.'s,
The Tremeloes,
Second Layer,
Barrington Levy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Count Five,
Section 25,
Aural Exciters,
The Skatalites,
Scientists,
The Blackbyrds,
Tomorrow,
The Doors,
Danielle Patucci,
Janne Schatter,
Chrome,
Fatback Band,
EPMD,
Urselle,
Ken Boothe,
Josef K,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
June of 44,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bang On A Can,
John Lydon,
Oneida,
Cameo,
The Blues Magoos,
Rotary Connection,
The Happenings,
Lalann,
The Motions,
The Black Dice,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Victims,
Throbbing Gristle,
John Cale,
Glambeats Corp.,
Can,
The Sisters of Mercy,
B.T. Express,
Unwound,
Ponytail,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.