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 Guinea-Bissau and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Sao Paulo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 World's Most to the grime 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Urselle,
Loose Ends,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gregory Isaacs,
B.T. Express,
the Germs,
Aaron Thompson,
Los Fastidios,
The Cure,
Little Man,
Nico,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
The Fall,
Peter & Gordon,
The Star Department,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
The Motions,
Mad Mike,
Flash Fearless,
Thompson Twins,
The Residents,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sixth Finger,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Drive Like Jehu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Neon Judgement,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Smiths,
Crash Course in Science,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Bananas,
Boredoms,
Panda Bear,
MDC,
Rosa Yemen,
Swell Maps,
Gong,
David McCallum,
Erykah Badu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Altered Images,
Donald Byrd,
Reagan Youth,
Lower 48,
Soft Machine,
Marine Girls,
Q and Not U,
Dead Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.