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 Georgia and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Drive Like Jehu to the disco 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Alice Coltrane,
Altered Images,
Scrapy,
Gang Green,
Aaron Thompson,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
Harmonia,
Country Teasers,
a-ha,
Ituana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hardrive,
EPMD,
Fatback Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Black Dice,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stetsasonic,
Marshall Jefferson,
Spoonie Gee,
Gil Scott Heron,
Patti Smith,
R.M.O.,
Audionom,
Mark Hollis,
Peter & Gordon,
Ronnie Foster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
Donald Byrd,
Mars,
The Dave Clark Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Tim Buckley,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gories,
Flipper,
Amazonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Heaven 17,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ohio Players,
Archie Shepp,
David McCallum,
Magma,
Crime,
Minutemen,
Grey Daturas,
The Wake,
Prince Buster,
Chrome,
The Mojo Men,
Easy Going,
Erykah Badu,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.