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 Madagascar and from Edmonton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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 Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
Adolescents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Letta Mbulu,
Television Personalities,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scrapy,
Rufus Thomas,
ABC,
Underground Resistance,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Happenings,
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quantec,
The Trojans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Slackers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
The Vogues,
Connie Case,
The Sound,
Bang On A Can,
AZ,
Sight & Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Byron Stingily,
ABBA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
Sugar Minott,
James White and The Blacks,
Moby Grape,
Soft Cell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Loose Ends,
Clear Light,
Black Flag,
The Birthday Party,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Christie,
Brick,
the Sonics,
Hoover,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Slits,
Swell Maps,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Move,
The Moleskins,
Magazine,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.