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 Nigeria and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Arthur Verocai to the grime 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Main Source,
Colin Newman,
Cheater Slicks,
Juan Atkins,
The Young Rascals,
Camberwell Now,
China Crisis,
Quando Quango,
Ossler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
John Coltrane,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ultravox,
Alice Coltrane,
The Red Krayola,
The Tremeloes,
Bill Wells,
Sixth Finger,
Sun City Girls,
The J.B.'s,
Todd Rundgren,
Funkadelic,
Roy Ayers,
Spandau Ballet,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Animal Collective,
Guru Guru,
Laurel Aitken,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Pus,
Monolake,
Gabor Szabo,
Scientists,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
kango's stein massive,
The Pop Group,
The Dirtbombs,
Panda Bear,
Au Pairs,
Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Peter and Kerry,
Henry Cow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pylon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Symarip,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
Boz Scaggs,
Man Parrish,
Pussy Galore,
Dennis Brown,
ABBA,
Joy Division,
Kenny Larkin,
The Birthday Party,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.