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 Portugal and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Shoche to the disco 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Symarip,
The Raincoats,
Ultra Naté,
Roxy Music,
Saccharine Trust,
the Bar-Kays,
Rapeman,
Dual Sessions,
Sun Ra,
Chris & Cosey,
Essential Logic,
The Gun Club,
Kayak,
The Zeros,
The Velvet Underground,
MDC,
Grey Daturas,
Blake Baxter,
EPMD,
Drexciya,
The Fire Engines,
The Walker Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Albert Ayler,
Swans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Unwound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Half Japanese,
the Association,
Oneida,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Soft Cell,
Terry Callier,
cv313,
The Star Department,
Susan Cadogan,
Soft Cell,
The Modern Lovers,
Robert Wyatt,
Alphaville,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Peter & Gordon,
Slave,
Yusef Lateef,
Icehouse,
Suicide,
F. McDonald,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television Personalities,
The Divine Comedy,
Freddie Wadling,
Roxette,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.