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 Egypt and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Alison Limerick to the jazz 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pantaleimon,
Amon Düül II,
Nas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter and Kerry,
Section 25,
Drive Like Jehu,
Maurizio,
The Music Machine,
Reuben Wilson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mission of Burma,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roxette,
Mo-Dettes,
Livin' Joy,
Mandrill,
Blancmange,
The Beau Brummels,
Lucky Dragons,
MDC,
Eric Dolphy,
Negative Approach,
Sam Rivers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Todd Terry,
Janne Schatter,
Sixth Finger,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suburban Knight,
The Pretty Things,
David Axelrod,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Bob Dylan,
Whodini,
Vainqueur,
The Leaves,
Steve Hackett,
The Smiths,
Toni Rubio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soft Cell,
Minny Pops,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Knickerbockers,
Animal Collective,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang of Four,
The Fall,
R.M.O.,
Deakin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nico,
The Victims,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.