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 Costa Rica and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Unwound to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The Misunderstood,
Duran Duran,
CMW,
Newcleus,
Soft Cell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bang On A Can,
Angry Samoans,
Rosa Yemen,
X-101,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kas Product,
Mary Jane Girls,
Japan,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Los Fastidios,
The Motions,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronan,
Rufus Thomas,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Skatalites,
Sonic Youth,
Severed Heads,
Sun City Girls,
Babytalk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pere Ubu,
Ponytail,
Moby Grape,
China Crisis,
The Techniques,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
AZ,
Unwound,
Alton Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
Swans,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
cv313,
Bill Wells,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dave Gahan,
Sex Pistols,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Faust,
Todd Terry,
Accadde A,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nirvana,
Crash Course in Science,
Bronski Beat,
In Retrospect,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.