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 Congo and from Edmonton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jesper Dahlback to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Essential Logic,
The Pop Group,
Junior Murvin,
Sam Rivers,
Mary Jane Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Selecter,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Michelle Simonal,
Ronnie Foster,
Nick Fraelich,
The Skatalites,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
Bang On A Can,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gerry Rafferty,
Davy DMX,
Pole,
Desert Stars,
Tom Boy,
The Fugs,
Joe Smooth,
Motorama,
Ituana,
Johnny Clarke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maleditus Sound,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dual Sessions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Section 25,
Sun Ra,
AZ,
Ultravox,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wings,
Freddie Wadling,
T.S.O.L.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Howard Jones,
Warsaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
Zapp,
F. McDonald,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Massinfluence,
Pylon,
Fear,
Lyres,
Patti Smith,
K-Klass,
Gabor Szabo,
Siglo XX,
Skriet,
Mark Hollis,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.