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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fuzztones to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Grass Roots,
Connie Case,
Isaac Hayes,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barrington Levy,
The Monochrome Set,
Scratch Acid,
China Crisis,
Gong,
The Gories,
Mars,
Unrelated Segments,
PIL,
The Motions,
Sound Behaviour,
Tomorrow,
Supertramp,
Talk Talk,
The Real Kids,
Cluster,
Dave Gahan,
Rites of Spring,
Throbbing Gristle,
Neu!,
Tommy Roe,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Monks,
Ken Boothe,
The Saints,
The J.B.'s,
Organ,
Qualms,
The Last Poets,
The United States of America,
World's Most,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Symarip,
Negative Approach,
Sonic Youth,
Ohio Players,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DJ Style,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Womack,
Freddie Wadling,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Audionom,
Howard Jones,
Bill Near,
Lindisfarne,
Rakim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.