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 Moldova and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lalann to the techno 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Carl Craig,
KRS-One,
Johnny Clarke,
Newcleus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Organ,
The Mojo Men,
The Five Americans,
The Associates,
F. McDonald,
The Seeds,
Fad Gadget,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anakelly,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dawn Penn,
Rekid,
Grandmaster Flash,
Henry Cow,
Ludus,
New York Dolls,
Mars,
Easy Going,
Soul II Soul,
Wings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Moebius,
Swans,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dirtbombs,
Von Mondo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Isaac Hayes,
Quantec,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alton Ellis,
Peter & Gordon,
Sixth Finger,
Masters at Work,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Duran Duran,
Silicon Teens,
Erasure,
The Blues Magoos,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eli Mardock,
48th St. Collective,
Zapp,
Amazonics,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scan 7,
Skriet,
Yazoo,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.