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 Botswana and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Slits to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Dawn Penn,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier,
Second Layer,
The Misunderstood,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wire,
Danielle Patucci,
The J.B.'s,
Anthony Braxton,
Blossom Toes,
Amon Düül II,
Boz Scaggs,
Yusef Lateef,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
U.S. Maple,
The Leaves,
The Gories,
Pulsallama,
Warsaw,
Sun Ra,
Outsiders,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Henry Cow,
Vainqueur,
Liliput,
Television Personalities,
Arcadia,
Marshall Jefferson,
Absolute Body Control,
Q65,
The Motions,
Pet Shop Boys,
Davy DMX,
Peter & Gordon,
the Sonics,
Ossler,
The Count Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Todd Terry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacob Miller,
Slick Rick,
Aaron Thompson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jimmy McGriff,
Young Marble Giants,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
Newcleus,
Sugar Minott,
Metal Thangz,
Urselle,
Harry Pussy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.