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 Marshall Islands and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 kango's stein massive to the electroclash 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Wasted Youth,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sandy B,
The Mojo Men,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eric Dolphy,
Metal Thangz,
Deadbeat,
Ken Boothe,
Jacques Brel,
Crash Course in Science,
The Wake,
Section 25,
Schoolly D,
the Normal,
Gichy Dan,
John Coltrane,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Fat Boys,
R.M.O.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Theoretical Girls,
Tres Demented,
Roxette,
Yaz,
Lou Reed,
Sun City Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Lindisfarne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ponytail,
Lightning Bolt,
Half Japanese,
Arab on Radar,
The Names,
The Dave Clark Five,
Supertramp,
The J.B.'s,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Goldenarms,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Amazonics,
Procol Harum,
The Move,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Das Ding,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Invisible,
Kayak,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.