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 Paraguay and from Seoul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Kinks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
John Foxx,
The Kinks,
Faraquet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
B.T. Express,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gories,
Bizarre Inc.,
Darondo,
Juan Atkins,
Marcia Griffiths,
Section 25,
Todd Terry,
Circle Jerks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom,
Lebanon Hanover,
Main Source,
Buzzcocks,
Marc Almond,
New Age Steppers,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Desert Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pantytec,
Siglo XX,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Monks,
F. McDonald,
Soulsonic Force,
Jandek,
Mission of Burma,
Negative Approach,
Heaven 17,
Cheater Slicks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Warren Ellis,
Skarface,
Radiohead,
Slave,
Camouflage,
James White and The Blacks,
Unwound,
Nas,
The J.B.'s,
David Bowie,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.