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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin 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 Simply Red to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Cell,
Swell Maps,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ponytail,
cv313,
Peter & Gordon,
Motorama,
Albert Ayler,
Interpol,
Lindisfarne,
Swans,
Joey Negro,
Suicide,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Public Enemy,
The Black Dice,
Mandrill,
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
One Last Wish,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Tremeloes,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Terry,
Patti Smith,
The J.B.'s,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fugs,
Rhythm & Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Stooges,
Oneida,
Excepter,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Lydon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Faust,
The Monks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
AZ,
Mission of Burma,
Ronan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Beau Brummels,
Cybotron,
Hot Snakes,
The Kinks,
the Sonics,
Sam Rivers,
Marmalade,
Sun Ra,
CMW,
The Gladiators,
The Gories,
It's A Beautiful Day,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.