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 Djibouti and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sad Lovers and Giants 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television Personalities,
Alice Coltrane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Royal Trux,
Marine Girls,
Outsiders,
The Martian,
David Axelrod,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed,
Prince Buster,
The Dirtbombs,
The Electric Prunes,
Morten Harket,
Scion,
The Tremeloes,
Sarah Menescal,
The Happenings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Technova,
Underground Resistance,
Zero Boys,
The Move,
Joy Division,
Joey Negro,
Suicide,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smiths,
Yellowson,
Peter & Gordon,
Franke,
Pere Ubu,
Interpol,
Moebius,
Saccharine Trust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultra Naté,
The Doobie Brothers,
Khruangbin,
Kurtis Blow,
Japan,
Black Flag,
Reagan Youth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eddi Front,
Max Romeo,
Spoonie Gee,
Todd Rundgren,
Gregory Isaacs,
Simply Red,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.