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 South Africa and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Interpol to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ludus,
Slick Rick,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Zeros,
Nils Olav,
Simply Red,
Gang of Four,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
Kayak,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pussy Galore,
Fluxion,
The Knickerbockers,
Matthew Bourne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rekid,
Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun Ra,
Eurythmics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Standells,
Scion,
Tubeway Army,
Drive Like Jehu,
CMW,
Unwound,
The Real Kids,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Young Rascals,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABBA,
Skarface,
Robert Görl,
Jerry's Kids,
Stiv Bators,
Fela Kuti,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ornette Coleman,
The Skatalites,
Mars,
Franke,
KRS-One,
Severed Heads,
Swell Maps,
Lightning Bolt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
In Retrospect,
Derrick Morgan,
L. Decosne,
The Gun Club,
Brick,
Nation of Ulysses,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.