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 Lithuania and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aswad to the grunge 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Joey Negro,
Flash Fearless,
Rod Modell,
Robert Görl,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eden Ahbez,
Dawn Penn,
June of 44,
Sugar Minott,
Scrapy,
Yellowson,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fall,
John Lydon,
Marmalade,
Tim Buckley,
Buzzcocks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kerri Chandler,
Albert Ayler,
Procol Harum,
Excepter,
John Foxx,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Duran Duran,
Quando Quango,
LL Cool J,
B.T. Express,
DJ Style,
Section 25,
Fluxion,
Arab on Radar,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lindisfarne,
Joyce Sims,
Icehouse,
Rites of Spring,
a-ha,
Simply Red,
H. Thieme,
Clear Light,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
U.S. Maple,
Minutemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Electric Prunes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Japan,
Yaz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Wyatt,
Sällskapet,
Cluster,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.