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 Somalia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 John Cale to the grime 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mars,
Trumans Water,
Audionom,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Happenings,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nico,
Pulsallama,
Yellowson,
The Count Five,
Man Parrish,
Stetsasonic,
Public Enemy,
The Modern Lovers,
Roxette,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gap Band,
Fatback Band,
Quando Quango,
Rapeman,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker,
EPMD,
Absolute Body Control,
JFA,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Beau Brummels,
DNA,
Marc Almond,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liliput,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Idris Muhammad,
Lindisfarne,
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Desert Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
ABBA,
Bad Manners,
Pierre Henry,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Jeff Mills,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Doors,
Ronnie Foster,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Womack,
Brick,
The Slackers,
Scion,
Jacob Miller,
Blancmange,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.