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 Israel and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Scion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erasure,
The Cramps,
AZ,
Excepter,
These Immortal Souls,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
New Age Steppers,
The Offenders,
Television Personalities,
James White and The Blacks,
Tres Demented,
Arab on Radar,
Trumans Water,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Star Department,
Todd Terry,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
China Crisis,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moby Grape,
The Velvet Underground,
Pussy Galore,
John Foxx,
Ralphi Rosario,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker,
KRS-One,
Davy DMX,
Eric Copeland,
The Victims,
Echospace,
Camberwell Now,
ABC,
B.T. Express,
Q and Not U,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Busters,
Morten Harket,
Al Stewart,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Royal Trux,
Joy Division,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Wasted Youth,
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Names,
Franke,
Delta 5,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music,
Buzzcocks,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.