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 Morocco and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 New Age Steppers to the electroclash 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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Pussy Galore,
The Stooges,
Sister Nancy,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Adolescents,
Simply Red,
MC5,
Wings,
Newcleus,
Dead Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-101,
DJ Style,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joy Division,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
Radiohead,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Kinks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Busters,
E-Dancer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zero Boys,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers,
Pulsallama,
The Red Krayola,
The Pretty Things,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Black Dice,
Tom Boy,
Absolute Body Control,
Bootsy Collins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oneida,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slits,
The Techniques,
Janne Schatter,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Idris Muhammad,
Erasure,
Royal Trux,
John Foxx,
David Axelrod,
Jacob Miller,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Hood,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gerry Rafferty,
Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
In Retrospect,
Sun City Girls,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.