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 Seychelles and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kerrie Biddell to the rock 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Mojo Men,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moody Blues,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Colin Newman,
Supertramp,
Junior Murvin,
Whodini,
Blake Baxter,
OOIOO,
Charles Mingus,
Tomorrow,
Franke,
John Holt,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jerry's Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Buzzcocks,
Technova,
the Human League,
New Age Steppers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deadbeat,
John Coltrane,
Schoolly D,
Grey Daturas,
The Dirtbombs,
Infiniti,
Wings,
Eli Mardock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
Eddi Front,
Ornette Coleman,
Banda Bassotti,
Moebius,
Robert Wyatt,
Pole,
Lou Reed,
New York Dolls,
Minor Threat,
Radiohead,
Dark Day,
Black Bananas,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kas Product,
Cybotron,
Quando Quango,
The Zeros,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Offenders,
In Retrospect,
Boz Scaggs,
U.S. Maple,
Pierre Henry,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.