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 Cape Verde and from Manila.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Toronto.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Johnny Clarke to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
CMW,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Tremeloes,
Scion,
Babytalk,
Gang Green,
The Monks,
Delta 5,
Bauhaus,
The Trojans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Association,
Black Sheep,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Angels of Light,
Freddie Wadling,
Scrapy,
Bobby Byrd,
Arab on Radar,
Guru Guru,
Leonard Cohen,
Fat Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sonics,
Rakim,
cv313,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Half Japanese,
Peter & Gordon,
Camouflage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
Au Pairs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liliput,
KRS-One,
Los Fastidios,
David Axelrod,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Cale,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalann,
Swans,
The Fortunes,
The Velvet Underground,
One Last Wish,
The Monochrome Set,
The Techniques,
Fugazi,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.