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 Albania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Hong Kong.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Fuzztones to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat 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?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Procol Harum,
Fad Gadget,
Ituana,
Joey Negro,
Sarah Menescal,
Junior Murvin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June Days,
kango's stein massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fatback Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
Brand Nubian,
Pierre Henry,
Dave Gahan,
The Black Dice,
The Leaves,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The New Christs,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
DJ Style,
Morten Harket,
Soul II Soul,
Rhythm & Sound,
Blossom Toes,
Au Pairs,
Pussy Galore,
China Crisis,
Camouflage,
Soft Machine,
Fluxion,
Soulsonic Force,
Essential Logic,
AZ,
The Pretty Things,
Drive Like Jehu,
Erasure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Sonics,
Cheater Slicks,
Joyce Sims,
Terry Callier,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
X-Ray Spex,
Letta Mbulu,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Womack,
Altered Images,
Inner City,
Kaleidoscope,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Flag,
Saccharine Trust,
Ice-T,
Magma,
Gichy Dan,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.