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 Honduras and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 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 The Knickerbockers 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Todd Terry,
Dave Gahan,
Iggy Pop,
Skriet,
Don Cherry,
China Crisis,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
L. Decosne,
Motorama,
Zero Boys,
Sällskapet,
The Vogues,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
Lungfish,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Velvet Underground,
Lalann,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Black Flag,
Newcleus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Underground Resistance,
Dennis Brown,
X-102,
Jerry's Kids,
The Wake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Infiniti,
Gichy Dan,
Thompson Twins,
Scientists,
MC5,
Interpol,
Toni Rubio,
the Germs,
Erasure,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Pretty Things,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Bowie,
Yazoo,
The Selecter,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flipper,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scratch Acid,
Archie Shepp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Morten Harket,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nils Olav,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.