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 Turkey and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro 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 Ralphi Rosario to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Aloha Tigers,
Sun City Girls,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
Metal Thangz,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fortunes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Qualms,
Echospace,
Tommy Roe,
Stiv Bators,
Bronski Beat,
Vainqueur,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television Personalities,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fugs,
Pantytec,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Jeff Lynne,
Camouflage,
Andrew Hill,
Soul Sonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yaz,
Crispian St. Peters,
DNA,
Tomorrow,
The Red Krayola,
The Dave Clark Five,
The New Christs,
Brass Construction,
Organ,
The Offenders,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
The Last Poets,
Steve Hackett,
The Monks,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Vogues,
Davy DMX,
The Stooges,
Pulsallama,
Anakelly,
Soft Machine,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Selecter,
The Fire Engines,
Mark Hollis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.