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 Angola and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Angry Samoans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Bush Tetras,
Basic Channel,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New Age Steppers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Newcleus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yusef Lateef,
Youth Brigade,
Stetsasonic,
The Standells,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dennis Brown,
Carl Craig,
Minor Threat,
Shuggie Otis,
The Birthday Party,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flash Fearless,
X-101,
Skaos,
Magma,
Crime,
EPMD,
Pagans,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül,
One Last Wish,
Pylon,
The Smoke,
John Lydon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeff Lynne,
Lindisfarne,
Moebius,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ken Boothe,
Niagra,
Donald Byrd,
Echospace,
Sonic Youth,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Blossom Toes,
The New Christs,
The Raincoats,
OOIOO,
Lalo Schifrin,
JFA,
Babytalk,
Wire,
Kaleidoscope,
Tears for Fears,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.