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 Chile and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Brick to the crunk 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Adolescents,
Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Slackers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vainqueur,
Los Fastidios,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
Liliput,
Radiohead,
Bad Manners,
Steve Hackett,
Gregory Isaacs,
Franke,
Ultra Naté,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Bar-Kays,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Motions,
Mission of Burma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
A Certain Ratio,
Kurtis Blow,
Spoonie Gee,
The Busters,
Joe Finger,
Flash Fearless,
R.M.O.,
Pulsallama,
The Stooges,
Jerry's Kids,
The Last Poets,
Peter and Kerry,
Bill Near,
The Index,
Minor Threat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Procol Harum,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Axelrod,
Cheater Slicks,
Isaac Hayes,
Arthur Verocai,
New Order,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Niagra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.