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 Benin and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 rock 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Japan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cymande,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Amazonics,
Accadde A,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
Ponytail,
Fad Gadget,
Laurel Aitken,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DNA,
Tubeway Army,
Barry Ungar,
Tomorrow,
Byron Stingily,
Scientists,
Bronski Beat,
The Invisible,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra,
Cybotron,
D'Angelo,
Zero Boys,
10cc,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Slits,
The United States of America,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
UT,
Crispy Ambulance,
KRS-One,
Ossler,
Franke,
Black Bananas,
Lightning Bolt,
The Mojo Men,
Wire,
Television Personalities,
Soulsonic Force,
Minutemen,
The Toasters,
Interpol,
Lindisfarne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Outsiders,
Make Up,
Hoover,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
Lyres,
Soul II Soul,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The J.B.'s,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.