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 Tuvalu and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bauhaus to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Evens,
Gastr Del Sol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Moss Icon,
The Young Rascals,
Mandrill,
Neil Young,
Dennis Brown,
Dave Gahan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barrington Levy,
Cybotron,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Invisible,
K-Klass,
The Barracudas,
Schoolly D,
Parry Music,
Grauzone,
The Skatalites,
Interpol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sixth Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flash Fearless,
Cluster,
Stiv Bators,
Graham Central Station,
The Beau Brummels,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Doors,
The Fall,
The Count Five,
Von Mondo,
Stereo Dub,
Funky Four + One,
Suicide,
The Leaves,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sugar Minott,
Sarah Menescal,
Youth Brigade,
the Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
Duran Duran,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.