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 Austria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Archie Shepp to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
The Slackers,
World's Most,
Sound Behaviour,
Todd Rundgren,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
The Modern Lovers,
Loose Ends,
Byron Stingily,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minnie Riperton,
The Victims,
Panda Bear,
Groovy Waters,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Count Five,
Magma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scion,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roxette,
Gabor Szabo,
Gregory Isaacs,
B.T. Express,
Radiopuhelimet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aloha Tigers,
Althea and Donna,
Wasted Youth,
Matthew Halsall,
D'Angelo,
The Smoke,
Joe Smooth,
Deadbeat,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Knickerbockers,
Ornette Coleman,
Altered Images,
Henry Cow,
Ten City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Audionom,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Litter,
JFA,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Banda Bassotti,
Bob Dylan,
Y Pants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Chris & Cosey,
Gichy Dan,
Sex Pistols,
Ultravox,
Godley & Creme,
Eli Mardock,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.