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 India and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Spoonie Gee to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Juan Atkins,
Davy DMX,
Aswad,
Sonic Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Magazine,
Minor Threat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter and Kerry,
Oblivians,
The New Christs,
Camouflage,
The Vogues,
Circle Jerks,
Second Layer,
Fugazi,
Mr. Review,
Loose Ends,
Monks,
Unwound,
Patti Smith,
The Fall,
David McCallum,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
The Fire Engines,
Newcleus,
June Days,
Easy Going,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang On A Can,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
This Heat,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Talk Talk,
the Slits,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kerri Chandler,
Stetsasonic,
Inner City,
Buzzcocks,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Finger,
The Searchers,
The Cramps,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Faust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Khruangbin,
Cymande,
Al Stewart,
Godley & Creme,
The Stooges,
Audionom,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aloha Tigers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.