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 Mauritius and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Stooges to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dirtbombs,
Cameo,
Depeche Mode,
Blancmange,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aural Exciters,
Oneida,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
The Victims,
Yellowson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ralphi Rosario,
L. Decosne,
The Moody Blues,
Fluxion,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marcia Griffiths,
Clear Light,
Yusef Lateef,
Underground Resistance,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gladiators,
Pussy Galore,
Liliput,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Darondo,
Index,
Audionom,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sixth Finger,
The Fortunes,
Lucky Dragons,
Maleditus Sound,
Neil Young,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cal Tjader,
New Age Steppers,
DNA,
Steve Hackett,
Minutemen,
Kaleidoscope,
Archie Shepp,
Swans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Skatalites,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Kas Product,
Zapp,
La Düsseldorf,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Bill Near,
Grauzone,
Ten City,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.