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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Half Japanese,
Terry Callier,
Minutemen,
Yellowson,
the Normal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Theoretical Girls,
Khruangbin,
Bluetip,
The Busters,
Marine Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter & Gordon,
Hot Snakes,
Stereo Dub,
a-ha,
Sly & The Family Stone,
This Heat,
Soul II Soul,
The Zeros,
Easy Going,
Girls At Our Best!,
Television,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Spandau Ballet,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Remains,
Porter Ricks,
The Moody Blues,
The Misunderstood,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Groovy Waters,
Scientists,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Archie Shepp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronan,
The Red Krayola,
Sandy B,
Japan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roger Hodgson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wasted Youth,
Darondo,
MC5,
Idris Muhammad,
DNA,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
Desert Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dennis Brown,
New York Dolls,
Au Pairs,
Radiohead,
Thompson Twins,
Ohio Players,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.