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 Equatorial Guinea 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gong 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
The Walker Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Halsall,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Motions,
Robert Wyatt,
Japan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pierre Henry,
Don Cherry,
The Tremeloes,
Country Teasers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Names,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fall,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bootsy Collins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronnie Foster,
Main Source,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Second Layer,
Nick Fraelich,
Frankie Knuckles,
The New Christs,
Can,
The Star Department,
Lakeside,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
Ice-T,
Yellowson,
R.M.O.,
Slick Rick,
Mantronix,
The Doors,
Black Bananas,
Nils Olav,
CMW,
June Days,
Liliput,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Minnie Riperton,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Dolphy,
UT,
Ludus,
Josef K,
Sarah Menescal,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.