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 Sierra Leone and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the funk 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Black Flag,
Darondo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hashim,
Iggy Pop,
Con Funk Shun,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
Pierre Henry,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Unrelated Segments,
The Tremeloes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pylon,
Gichy Dan,
The Black Dice,
Skaos,
Joe Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Soul II Soul,
Crooked Eye,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pulsallama,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Barracudas,
Sonic Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ituana,
Ponytail,
The Gories,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Yaz,
Slave,
Faust,
The Blackbyrds,
Pere Ubu,
Skarface,
Dual Sessions,
Groovy Waters,
The Selecter,
Slick Rick,
The Evens,
Silicon Teens,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brick,
Moebius,
Lower 48,
Wings,
Babytalk,
Cal Tjader,
The Litter,
the Sonics,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.