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 Lesotho and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Bronski Beat to the funk 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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Niagra,
UT,
The Monks,
Ronan,
Slave,
Half Japanese,
MC5,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Wells,
Tim Buckley,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Idris Muhammad,
Heaven 17,
The Techniques,
The Cowsills,
Sight & Sound,
Average White Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Seeds,
E-Dancer,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rotary Connection,
The Monochrome Set,
Reagan Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swell Maps,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gun Club,
The Velvet Underground,
Rod Modell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Sheep,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delta 5,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The United States of America,
Agent Orange,
The Litter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Names,
Second Layer,
Alton Ellis,
The Victims,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
Grauzone,
The Mummies,
Buzzcocks,
Suicide,
Morten Harket,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.