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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Essential Logic,
The Blackbyrds,
Yazoo,
Surgeon,
The Walker Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lakeside,
Letta Mbulu,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Wyatt,
Zero Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rufus Thomas,
Kurtis Blow,
Wasted Youth,
Ossler,
Deakin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fela Kuti,
Marine Girls,
The Doors,
Marvin Gaye,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Star Department,
The Remains,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
10cc,
Q65,
Los Fastidios,
Anakelly,
Monks,
Alton Ellis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABC,
Average White Band,
Roxette,
Organ,
Ten City,
Neu!,
Graham Central Station,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mandrill,
Jawbox,
Schoolly D,
Reagan Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suburban Knight,
Black Bananas,
The Smoke,
The Trojans,
Animal Collective,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Boz Scaggs,
Marmalade,
Traffic Nightmare,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.