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 Czech Republic and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Faust to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Fela Kuti,
The Monochrome Set,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Monks,
JFA,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Jeff Mills,
Minor Threat,
The Misunderstood,
Marvin Gaye,
MC5,
L. Decosne,
The Gap Band,
Patti Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alison Limerick,
Minny Pops,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Starr,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dark Day,
Glambeats Corp.,
Make Up,
Metal Thangz,
Urselle,
Scott Walker,
Radio Birdman,
Scan 7,
Scrapy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Donny Hathaway,
Joe Smooth,
Bill Wells,
Country Teasers,
Peter and Kerry,
Camouflage,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bronski Beat,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Cale,
Surgeon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Harmonia,
Soulsonic Force,
Icehouse,
Supertramp,
Judy Mowatt,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Aswad,
Ronan,
T.S.O.L.,
Rapeman,
June Days,
Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.