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 Malawi and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 clarinet 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 Graham Central Station to the grunge 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
The Human League,
China Crisis,
Warsaw,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hoover,
Lalann,
The Electric Prunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Residents,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
Theoretical Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Angry Samoans,
Ultra Naté,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Gladiators,
The Sound,
Severed Heads,
Ornette Coleman,
Skriet,
Intrusion,
Guru Guru,
Robert Görl,
The Gories,
Judy Mowatt,
the Human League,
The Evens,
Radiohead,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Arthur Verocai,
Siglo XX,
Althea and Donna,
Main Source,
T.S.O.L.,
Faust,
Barclay James Harvest,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Todd Rundgren,
Niagra,
Electric Prunes,
June Days,
Aural Exciters,
Bobby Sherman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jandek,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Talk Talk,
Infiniti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
MDC,
Gang of Four,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Loose Ends,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
One Last Wish,
Alton Ellis,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.