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 Cyprus and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Spoonie Gee to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec 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?
JFA,
Joe Smooth,
Aswad,
The J.B.'s,
Warren Ellis,
Underground Resistance,
Can,
Zero Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Fugazi,
Supertramp,
The Cramps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Technova,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Iggy Pop,
EPMD,
OOIOO,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fluxion,
The Smoke,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Normal,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
U.S. Maple,
Prince Buster,
Steve Hackett,
The Gun Club,
Blancmange,
Scrapy,
Barclay James Harvest,
June of 44,
Morten Harket,
The Fuzztones,
Pere Ubu,
Aloha Tigers,
Massinfluence,
The Fugs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rapeman,
Bauhaus,
Moebius,
Sight & Sound,
Audionom,
Anthony Braxton,
T.S.O.L.,
Public Enemy,
Scion,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neil Young,
Thompson Twins,
Motorama,
T. Rex,
LL Cool J,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
KRS-One,
Echospace,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.