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 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Joey Negro to the grime 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Christie,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Association,
Kool Moe Dee,
FM Einheit,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pole,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Liliput,
The Fuzztones,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
Aural Exciters,
Talk Talk,
Smog,
China Crisis,
The Tremeloes,
Motorama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ten City,
Animal Collective,
Magazine,
Moby Grape,
Ultravox,
Dead Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Guru Guru,
Marvin Gaye,
Howard Jones,
Radio Birdman,
Man Eating Sloth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Jeff Mills,
The Electric Prunes,
Hot Snakes,
Sight & Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shoche,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Duran Duran,
Lungfish,
Lucky Dragons,
Gichy Dan,
CMW,
Pharoah Sanders,
Michelle Simonal,
Second Layer,
The Techniques,
Mr. Review,
E-Dancer,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fire Engines,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yellowson,
Swans,
Harmonia,
The Gladiators,
The Golliwogs,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.