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 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Wake to the techno 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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camouflage,
Stiv Bators,
Minor Threat,
Patti Smith,
The Misunderstood,
Dark Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bad Manners,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mars,
Vainqueur,
Byron Stingily,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultra Naté,
Tres Demented,
Quantec,
Babytalk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blackbyrds,
Lou Christie,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blues Magoos,
10cc,
Mantronix,
Rosa Yemen,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deakin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Josef K,
The American Breed,
Cecil Taylor,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Basic Channel,
Masters at Work,
David Axelrod,
Sparks,
Crooked Eye,
Funky Four + One,
Cheater Slicks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q and Not U,
Howard Jones,
Rapeman,
Nirvana,
Beasts of Bourbon,
ABBA,
La Düsseldorf,
The Remains,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
Swell Maps,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.