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 Saudi Arabia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wire to the grime 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-101,
ABBA,
Arab on Radar,
Cal Tjader,
The Cowsills,
Lower 48,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sonics,
Thee Headcoats,
Unrelated Segments,
Liliput,
The Stooges,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Angry Samoans,
Flash Fearless,
These Immortal Souls,
Ohio Players,
Wally Richardson,
Arcadia,
Shuggie Otis,
Magazine,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Carl Craig,
Television Personalities,
EPMD,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mission of Burma,
Lucky Dragons,
Reuben Wilson,
Heaven 17,
Suburban Knight,
The Star Department,
Morten Harket,
The Barracudas,
Swans,
Soul II Soul,
Babytalk,
Essential Logic,
Sparks,
Rites of Spring,
Livin' Joy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joy Division,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rufus Thomas,
Metal Thangz,
Franke,
The Gun Club,
Agitation Free,
PIL,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lyres,
Eric Dolphy,
Ten City,
Wings,
David Axelrod,
the Association,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.