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 St Lucia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grunge 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bauhaus,
Radiohead,
Patti Smith,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultravox,
The Standells,
Gastr Del Sol,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Shuggie Otis,
Warren Ellis,
Black Flag,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Roger Hodgson,
The Wake,
The Dirtbombs,
Rotary Connection,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cameo,
Graham Central Station,
Peter & Gordon,
Don Cherry,
Au Pairs,
Wings,
UT,
Joyce Sims,
The Doobie Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wasted Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Moon,
Jerry's Kids,
The Moleskins,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gladiators,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anthony Braxton,
World's Most,
Darondo,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
The Slackers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
AZ,
The Skatalites,
PIL,
CMW,
Jeff Mills,
LL Cool J,
Porter Ricks,
Khruangbin,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Busters,
Toni Rubio,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.