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 Eritrea and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Dorothy Ashby to the electroclash 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Eating Sloth,
Essential Logic,
Public Enemy,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marmalade,
Bobby Byrd,
the Normal,
Second Layer,
DJ Style,
John Cale,
Whodini,
Liliput,
Pharoah Sanders,
JFA,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eve St. Jones,
Boz Scaggs,
Hoover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bluetip,
Ultimate Spinach,
Supertramp,
Skriet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Model 500,
Jandek,
Cluster,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Unwound,
Banda Bassotti,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Blackbyrds,
Barry Ungar,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Von Mondo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Colin Newman,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roxette,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Pus,
Rufus Thomas,
Neil Young,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Con Funk Shun,
X-102,
Depeche Mode,
The Misunderstood,
Prince Buster,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.