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 Uruguay and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 David McCallum to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Cal Tjader,
Soul II Soul,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bronski Beat,
X-102,
Tropical Tobacco,
Japan,
Saccharine Trust,
Aural Exciters,
Derrick Morgan,
Hot Snakes,
JFA,
Average White Band,
Pere Ubu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marvin Gaye,
Whodini,
Section 25,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Goldenarms,
The Slackers,
DNA,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yazoo,
Infiniti,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masters at Work,
Index,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Joyce Sims,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Sneak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
This Heat,
Quantec,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
One Last Wish,
Pantaleimon,
Moebius,
Ralphi Rosario,
Royal Trux,
Amazonics,
Maurizio,
Camberwell Now,
Absolute Body Control,
Trumans Water,
T. Rex,
Suburban Knight,
Unwound,
Ponytail,
Pierre Henry,
Television Personalities,
Sound Behaviour,
Lungfish,
The Vogues,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.