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 Comoros and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the snare 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 Bluetip to the rock 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
The Evens,
Sparks,
The Human League,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bauhaus,
Robert Hood,
Spandau Ballet,
Fad Gadget,
The Red Krayola,
Agent Orange,
The Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Scrapy,
The Walker Brothers,
Guru Guru,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Young Rascals,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young,
Kas Product,
The Doors,
Reagan Youth,
Agitation Free,
Tom Boy,
The American Breed,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gichy Dan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Godley & Creme,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Excepter,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ludus,
Thompson Twins,
Quando Quango,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Adolescents,
Essential Logic,
Bobby Byrd,
Boz Scaggs,
Connie Case,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Slits,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Bourne,
T.S.O.L.,
Brothers Johnson,
Yazoo,
Severed Heads,
Suicide,
Peter and Kerry,
Fat Boys,
Oneida,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.