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 Argentina and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord 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 linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
The Angels of Light,
Mandrill,
Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick May,
Shuggie Otis,
Animal Collective,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Curtis Mayfield,
Easy Going,
Heaven 17,
Yusef Lateef,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
Babytalk,
Ossler,
The Raincoats,
Magazine,
Sexual Harrassment,
The New Christs,
Amon Düül II,
Radiohead,
The Cosmic Jokers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minutemen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kurtis Blow,
The Invisible,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronan,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-101,
Supertramp,
Jeff Mills,
Bad Manners,
Ituana,
The Vogues,
Sex Pistols,
Soft Cell,
The Fire Engines,
Country Teasers,
CMW,
The Dead C,
Jacques Brel,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kerri Chandler,
the Germs,
Newcleus,
L. Decosne,
Clear Light,
Ornette Coleman,
John Lydon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nirvana,
Terrestrial Tones,
Andrew Hill,
Tom Boy,
UT,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.