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 Solomon Islands and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Michelle Simonal to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
The Cure,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smoke,
The Kinks,
Anthony Braxton,
Mission of Burma,
Mary Jane Girls,
Albert Ayler,
Ossler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Clear Light,
Sugar Minott,
New Age Steppers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric B and Rakim,
Henry Cow,
Whodini,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The J.B.'s,
Infiniti,
Trumans Water,
Glenn Branca,
Alphaville,
John Coltrane,
Kerri Chandler,
Desert Stars,
Unwound,
Rod Modell,
Fela Kuti,
Grauzone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
Youth Brigade,
Sparks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gang Starr,
Urselle,
Pantytec,
Aloha Tigers,
Icehouse,
La Düsseldorf,
Minny Pops,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vladislav Delay,
Animal Collective,
The Velvet Underground,
Bluetip,
Country Teasers,
Boredoms,
Anakelly,
Peter & Gordon,
Simply Red,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gichy Dan,
Bronski Beat,
Make Up,
Jeff Lynne,
Al Stewart,
Slick Rick,
Skarface,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.