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 Afghanistan and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
David Bowie,
The Trojans,
Desert Stars,
Bob Dylan,
Theoretical Girls,
Scan 7,
Robert Hood,
Reagan Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
Minor Threat,
Panda Bear,
Unrelated Segments,
Fat Boys,
Lalann,
Q65,
Cal Tjader,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
X-Ray Spex,
New Age Steppers,
Bang On A Can,
Dennis Brown,
KRS-One,
Eric Copeland,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Whodini,
Arthur Verocai,
The Beau Brummels,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Blackbyrds,
The Litter,
Lou Reed,
Deakin,
the Association,
Henry Cow,
Blossom Toes,
Scion,
Buzzcocks,
The Angels of Light,
PIL,
The Move,
Visage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
The Young Rascals,
The United States of America,
Deepchord,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Sherman,
Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pere Ubu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rufus Thomas,
The Shadows of Knight,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Los Fastidios,
The Monks,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.