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 Denmark and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 Sugar Minott to the dance 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Ituana,
Ken Boothe,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Excepter,
kango's stein massive,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
X-101,
Oneida,
Deadbeat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jerry's Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rufus Thomas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Andrew Hill,
The Martian,
The Offenders,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Colin Newman,
Funky Four + One,
Sparks,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Techniques,
Gil Scott Heron,
Oblivians,
Danielle Patucci,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blackbyrds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
The Dirtbombs,
Pere Ubu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moby Grape,
Swans,
Nick Fraelich,
Erasure,
Cecil Taylor,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Johnny Osbourne,
ABC,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Infiniti,
The Gories,
Public Enemy,
Flipper,
Camberwell Now,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Can,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minor Threat,
Erykah Badu,
Q65,
Robert Wyatt,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.