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 Liechtenstein and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 The Count Five to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Throbbing Gristle. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars 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 a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Bananas,
Anakelly,
Joensuu 1685,
Mandrill,
CMW,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Görl,
The Offenders,
Aaron Thompson,
Patti Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Gerry Rafferty,
Laurel Aitken,
The Trojans,
Isaac Hayes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Theoretical Girls,
The Misunderstood,
Delta 5,
Kenny Larkin,
Alphaville,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Techniques,
Scratch Acid,
Alton Ellis,
Tom Boy,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
Easy Going,
Bill Wells,
Gabor Szabo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bad Manners,
Donny Hathaway,
The Slits,
Agitation Free,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Silicon Teens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Derrick May,
A Certain Ratio,
F. McDonald,
10cc,
Amon Düül,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cluster,
Scott Walker,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David McCallum,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Subhumans,
Gang Starr,
The Vogues,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.