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 Cyprus and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Iggy Pop to the punk 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Colin Newman,
10cc,
Depeche Mode,
Bluetip,
The Sonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fela Kuti,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ronan,
Q65,
Mad Mike,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
Porter Ricks,
Marine Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Gang of Four,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Music Machine,
One Last Wish,
Lakeside,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scion,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Vogues,
Traffic Nightmare,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
Camouflage,
Cluster,
Surgeon,
Max Romeo,
Yazoo,
Fat Boys,
Peter and Kerry,
Dave Gahan,
H. Thieme,
X-102,
Roxette,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moebius,
Aaron Thompson,
Eric Copeland,
Radiohead,
The Real Kids,
Magma,
Motorama,
the Swans,
Susan Cadogan,
The Toasters,
Q and Not U,
Arthur Verocai,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
The United States of America,
Scientists,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.