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 Nicaragua and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mary Jane Girls to the punk 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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?
Parry Music,
Sound Behaviour,
the Germs,
Max Romeo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sex Pistols,
Ituana,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Altered Images,
The Skatalites,
The Angels of Light,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Lower 48,
R.M.O.,
Roxy Music,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Simply Red,
The Blackbyrds,
Saccharine Trust,
John Lydon,
Matthew Halsall,
Lakeside,
The Stooges,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai,
the Slits,
Television Personalities,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Wells,
Dave Gahan,
Magma,
Fluxion,
Grauzone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Foxx,
Bobby Sherman,
Dennis Brown,
Al Stewart,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Erykah Badu,
Model 500,
Scan 7,
The Cramps,
Peter & Gordon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rapeman,
Sugar Minott,
Eric Copeland,
The Victims,
Country Teasers,
Barrington Levy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alphaville,
Fela Kuti,
Trumans Water,
The Gories,
U.S. Maple,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.