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 Singapore and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Rotary Connection to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Halsall,
The Slits,
Minor Threat,
Alice Coltrane,
Section 25,
The Gun Club,
The Fire Engines,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delta 5,
Derrick May,
Aaron Thompson,
Henry Cow,
Newcleus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Standells,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
Half Japanese,
Yellowson,
Animal Collective,
Yazoo,
Swell Maps,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
Funky Four + One,
Subhumans,
Inner City,
The Electric Prunes,
FM Einheit,
Essential Logic,
A Certain Ratio,
Kaleidoscope,
These Immortal Souls,
Brothers Johnson,
Circle Jerks,
Gang Green,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Ossler,
Gang Starr,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cybotron,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eden Ahbez,
Sexual Harrassment,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kas Product,
Joey Negro,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Skatalites,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
The Slackers,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.