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 Slovakia and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Iggy Pop to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Popol Vuh,
Suburban Knight,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Colin Newman,
Blake Baxter,
Rufus Thomas,
Ultravox,
Tomorrow,
R.M.O.,
Fugazi,
John Holt,
Whodini,
the Swans,
Soul II Soul,
Inner City,
Robert Görl,
Funkadelic,
Jeff Mills,
Big Daddy Kane,
Warren Ellis,
The United States of America,
Ronan,
T.S.O.L.,
The Index,
The Human League,
Supertramp,
Swell Maps,
Pantaleimon,
Oneida,
a-ha,
Eddi Front,
Jeff Lynne,
Josef K,
Livin' Joy,
Donny Hathaway,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Derrick May,
Henry Cow,
World's Most,
Steve Hackett,
The Smiths,
The Young Rascals,
B.T. Express,
Pylon,
Section 25,
the Association,
Nico,
The J.B.'s,
Sparks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Terry Callier,
Hoover,
Skaos,
Unwound,
Eden Ahbez,
Boogie Down Productions,
Neil Young,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.