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 Peru and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Shoche,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Isaac Hayes,
Circle Jerks,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Matthew Halsall,
Drexciya,
Bronski Beat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Deakin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pharoah Sanders,
Howard Jones,
Marvin Gaye,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
ABBA,
Freddie Wadling,
DJ Style,
Nation of Ulysses,
Todd Terry,
The United States of America,
New Order,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
Depeche Mode,
Slick Rick,
Swell Maps,
Talk Talk,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zapp,
Derrick May,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moss Icon,
Brand Nubian,
Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Angels of Light,
Jandek,
A Certain Ratio,
Quantec,
Rakim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Morten Harket,
Basic Channel,
Stockholm Monsters,
R.M.O.,
Jacob Miller,
Negative Approach,
Bluetip,
Judy Mowatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
Don Cherry,
Spandau Ballet,
Idris Muhammad,
Kenny Larkin,
Lightning Bolt,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.