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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the crunk 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Idris Muhammad,
The Invisible,
Youth Brigade,
Stockholm Monsters,
Severed Heads,
Audionom,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
UT,
Patti Smith,
the Swans,
Pere Ubu,
Silicon Teens,
Ludus,
Archie Shepp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chris & Cosey,
Bill Wells,
Radiohead,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Graham Central Station,
The Names,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Godley & Creme,
Prince Buster,
OOIOO,
Tears for Fears,
Inner City,
Dave Gahan,
New Order,
Sight & Sound,
Sugar Minott,
The Standells,
Tommy Roe,
Groovy Waters,
John Holt,
10cc,
Jeff Lynne,
The Buckinghams,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DJ Sneak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Newcleus,
Subhumans,
Letta Mbulu,
Underground Resistance,
Janne Schatter,
Half Japanese,
China Crisis,
Cluster,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deakin,
Dawn Penn,
Laurel Aitken,
Theoretical Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.