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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Organ 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Dark Day,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David Axelrod,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Warren Ellis,
The Slackers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Starr,
In Retrospect,
Accadde A,
The Golliwogs,
The Raincoats,
Fluxion,
kango's stein massive,
The Standells,
The Blackbyrds,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hasil Adkins,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Q65,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Wells,
Aural Exciters,
Reagan Youth,
Excepter,
Cal Tjader,
Anakelly,
Outsiders,
Con Funk Shun,
Lungfish,
Boz Scaggs,
Junior Murvin,
Blancmange,
L. Decosne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young,
The New Christs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ten City,
Television,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
JFA,
Metal Thangz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joey Negro,
Tim Buckley,
Sparks,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Godley & Creme,
Pylon,
Trumans Water,
48th St. Collective,
Model 500,
Alphaville,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aaron Thompson,
The Moody Blues,
The Moleskins,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.