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 Antigua and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 New Christs to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jimmy McGriff,
Au Pairs,
Donny Hathaway,
U.S. Maple,
Gerry Rafferty,
LL Cool J,
Liliput,
La Düsseldorf,
The Searchers,
Crash Course in Science,
The Kinks,
Freddie Wadling,
Anakelly,
Tres Demented,
Altered Images,
China Crisis,
The Litter,
Yusef Lateef,
Minutemen,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Green,
The Martian,
Infiniti,
Radiohead,
MDC,
Michelle Simonal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Schoolly D,
Roxette,
PIL,
The Mummies,
Lalo Schifrin,
Flash Fearless,
The Fuzztones,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker,
Slick Rick,
E-Dancer,
Jeru the Damaja,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tomorrow,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cheater Slicks,
The Birthday Party,
The Names,
Popol Vuh,
Lou Reed,
Mark Hollis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zero Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Bauhaus,
The Gladiators,
Sam Rivers,
DJ Sneak,
Minor Threat,
Joensuu 1685,
Sight & Sound,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.