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 Indonesia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roger Hodgson to the disco 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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,
Connie Case,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Flag,
Delta 5,
These Immortal Souls,
Fatback Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Animal Collective,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Freddie Wadling,
Erasure,
Sparks,
Tommy Roe,
Pylon,
Second Layer,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gong,
Chris Corsano,
Adolescents,
Tom Boy,
Terry Callier,
The Selecter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Newcleus,
The Doors,
Procol Harum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobby Sherman,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter and Kerry,
The United States of America,
Grey Daturas,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-Ray Spex,
Sällskapet,
The Zeros,
Gichy Dan,
Tres Demented,
Hardrive,
The Music Machine,
Josef K,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
The J.B.'s,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bluetip,
Scrapy,
This Heat,
The Techniques,
Rod Modell,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.