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 Tanzania and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Idris Muhammad,
Pantaleimon,
Altered Images,
John Lydon,
The Beau Brummels,
AZ,
Hasil Adkins,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Terry,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tomorrow,
Nirvana,
KRS-One,
Sällskapet,
The Stooges,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
The Angels of Light,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brick,
World's Most,
Susan Cadogan,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neu!,
Rapeman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Sherman,
Donny Hathaway,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sight & Sound,
Scrapy,
The Index,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Au Pairs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Interpol,
Mary Jane Girls,
CMW,
Aural Exciters,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Byrd,
Reuben Wilson,
Drexciya,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Normal,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pierre Henry,
Crash Course in Science,
the Fania All-Stars,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.