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 Zambia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Index to the disco 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispian St. Peters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Scrapy,
Danielle Patucci,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Bourne,
Cheater Slicks,
Sound Behaviour,
Ituana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fluxion,
Goldenarms,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Victims,
Max Romeo,
Camouflage,
Livin' Joy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
T.S.O.L.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moss Icon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arab on Radar,
R.M.O.,
Gang of Four,
Porter Ricks,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barrington Levy,
Swans,
John Holt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ronnie Foster,
The Divine Comedy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Albert Ayler,
Main Source,
Television Personalities,
The Monks,
Erasure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minny Pops,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Groovy Waters,
The Doors,
Yellowson,
Ronan,
The Trojans,
Josef K,
Silicon Teens,
Sixth Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Johnny Clarke,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.