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 Australia and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Offenders to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rites of Spring,
Moss Icon,
Pagans,
the Normal,
Warren Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
Hasil Adkins,
Joe Smooth,
The Dirtbombs,
The Doors,
Erykah Badu,
Anthony Braxton,
The Angels of Light,
The Standells,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sällskapet,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June Days,
Trumans Water,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Görl,
Can,
Excepter,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
John Foxx,
Y Pants,
Dorothy Ashby,
Magazine,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bill Near,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Davy DMX,
Brothers Johnson,
Massinfluence,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alice Coltrane,
Amazonics,
Steve Hackett,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Christie,
Arthur Verocai,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fear,
Brand Nubian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Harmonia,
Roxy Music,
Aural Exciters,
JFA,
The Electric Prunes,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.