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 Micronesia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Sonics to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
Dawn Penn,
The Birthday Party,
Yellowson,
Niagra,
E-Dancer,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Vogues,
DJ Style,
Steve Hackett,
the Germs,
the Swans,
Minutemen,
Ponytail,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David Axelrod,
Section 25,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick May,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wolf Eyes,
Deepchord,
Max Romeo,
Surgeon,
The Blues Magoos,
Skarface,
The Red Krayola,
Colin Newman,
Excepter,
Blancmange,
Stereo Dub,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Coltrane,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
June Days,
Black Pus,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
Tres Demented,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sun City Girls,
Matthew Bourne,
Metal Thangz,
The Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
Michelle Simonal,
The Litter,
Mo-Dettes,
Wire,
Ash Ra Tempel,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fall,
Eric Copeland,
Porter Ricks,
Hardrive,
Roxette,
Accadde A,
The Mojo Men,
Neu!,
Cecil Taylor,
The Kinks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.