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 United States and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Todd Rundgren,
Minor Threat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aural Exciters,
Erasure,
The Angels of Light,
Connie Case,
Mark Hollis,
Alison Limerick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Prunes,
T. Rex,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warsaw,
Can,
The Victims,
Sällskapet,
Index,
Scan 7,
Monolake,
Quantec,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Organ,
John Coltrane,
cv313,
ABBA,
Grey Daturas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Zero Boys,
Tom Boy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
The Toasters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Guru Guru,
Jandek,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Agent Orange,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skaos,
Popol Vuh,
Cheater Slicks,
Howard Jones,
Gang Starr,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Doors,
The United States of America,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hasil Adkins,
Visage,
Tomorrow,
Eddi Front,
DNA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.