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 Belgium and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Roger Hodgson to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Cluster,
Rotary Connection,
Japan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Barracudas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Faust,
the Swans,
Terry Callier,
Skaos,
Flash Fearless,
Talk Talk,
The Smoke,
Rapeman,
Los Fastidios,
Rakim,
Gichy Dan,
Hashim,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soul II Soul,
The Remains,
Scion,
Brothers Johnson,
Cal Tjader,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
K-Klass,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Slick Rick,
Quadrant,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Toasters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Danielle Patucci,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grauzone,
OOIOO,
The Real Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mummies,
Jeff Lynne,
Rosa Yemen,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eric Copeland,
Brick,
a-ha,
In Retrospect,
Oneida,
Roxy Music,
Kerrie Biddell,
Metal Thangz,
The Motions,
cv313,
Desert Stars,
ABC,
Faraquet,
Inner City,
Minny Pops,
Audionom,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.