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 Russia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Clear Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
Dennis Brown,
Amazonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terrestrial Tones,
June of 44,
Aaron Thompson,
The Buckinghams,
Swell Maps,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camouflage,
Fluxion,
The Angels of Light,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Newcleus,
The Cure,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minor Threat,
The United States of America,
Neu!,
The Velvet Underground,
Television,
Los Fastidios,
Subhumans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Severed Heads,
Icehouse,
The Searchers,
Freddie Wadling,
Bill Near,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scan 7,
Dark Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heaven 17,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerri Chandler,
Au Pairs,
Grauzone,
Soul Sonic Force,
H. Thieme,
Pylon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fall,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Martian,
the Swans,
Half Japanese,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.