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 Slovakia and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Sarah Menescal to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Cale,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mad Mike,
Scientists,
Funkadelic,
The Residents,
Newcleus,
Erasure,
Danielle Patucci,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Names,
Sister Nancy,
Peter and Kerry,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Subhumans,
The Offenders,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Intrusion,
The Flesh Eaters,
World's Most,
Aswad,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ken Boothe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soul II Soul,
Nick Fraelich,
Tim Buckley,
Cybotron,
The Victims,
Television,
K-Klass,
Von Mondo,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
Y Pants,
Flipper,
The Velvet Underground,
The Real Kids,
Alton Ellis,
Skaos,
Boredoms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Detroit Cobras,
Porter Ricks,
LL Cool J,
Q and Not U,
Ralphi Rosario,
Theoretical Girls,
Oneida,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.