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 Tanzania and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Bob Dylan,
Archie Shepp,
Soulsonic Force,
The Count Five,
Amon Düül II,
Altered Images,
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
The Motions,
Lungfish,
Roxette,
The Fire Engines,
Duran Duran,
The Divine Comedy,
Erykah Badu,
Section 25,
Alphaville,
Mad Mike,
Derrick Morgan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Smog,
The Remains,
Thompson Twins,
Swans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Cale,
Pole,
Stiv Bators,
Aloha Tigers,
Animal Collective,
Stereo Dub,
David Bowie,
K-Klass,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tears for Fears,
Stetsasonic,
The Detroit Cobras,
Oneida,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Eurythmics,
The Music Machine,
Henry Cow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Main Source,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Trojans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deepchord,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maleditus Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gang Green,
Black Flag,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.