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 Yemen and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
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 synthesizer 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 Easy Going to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Camberwell Now,
Rufus Thomas,
48th St. Collective,
Subhumans,
Interpol,
Neu!,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Idris Muhammad,
Theoretical Girls,
Morten Harket,
Sandy B,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New Age Steppers,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Franke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skriet,
The Zeros,
OOIOO,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ponytail,
Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Simply Red,
Pole,
Amazonics,
Guru Guru,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neil Young,
Lightning Bolt,
The Last Poets,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
Spoonie Gee,
One Last Wish,
Roxette,
Kerri Chandler,
Von Mondo,
Laurel Aitken,
Nico,
Dual Sessions,
Slick Rick,
Rosa Yemen,
Quantec,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q and Not U,
The Skatalites,
The Five Americans,
Ronnie Foster,
The Smiths,
Harmonia,
the Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.