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 Malta and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sam Rivers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Steve Hackett,
Jandek,
Television,
the Human League,
The Searchers,
Tim Buckley,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Max Romeo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
The Mummies,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonic Youth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Liliput,
Pole,
R.M.O.,
Barry Ungar,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Cheater Slicks,
Rapeman,
New Order,
Index,
Colin Newman,
Aswad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gun Club,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anakelly,
Ponytail,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Susan Cadogan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Big Daddy Kane,
Iggy Pop,
Archie Shepp,
Dead Boys,
Todd Terry,
Stereo Dub,
Duran Duran,
The Pop Group,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Görl,
Radio Birdman,
Hardrive,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harmonia,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sister Nancy,
Rosa Yemen,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.