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 Gambia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Gong,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bad Manners,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant,
These Immortal Souls,
Blancmange,
Cameo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
a-ha,
Tubeway Army,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Swans,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wally Richardson,
Desert Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kurtis Blow,
Technova,
Stiv Bators,
Max Romeo,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ponytail,
Grey Daturas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crooked Eye,
The Moleskins,
MC5,
Albert Ayler,
Pantytec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sound Behaviour,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rekid,
Maleditus Sound,
Swell Maps,
PIL,
Fugazi,
The Mummies,
The Misunderstood,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
X-102,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Monks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Pus,
Robert Wyatt,
Youth Brigade,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.