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 Maldives and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Motions to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Sight & Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
The Moleskins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Urselle,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fatback Band,
Los Fastidios,
L. Decosne,
Reuben Wilson,
Minnie Riperton,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Neon Judgement,
T.S.O.L.,
Sarah Menescal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Duran Duran,
The Toasters,
Brand Nubian,
Mo-Dettes,
Kas Product,
Pole,
Soul II Soul,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fuzztones,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Leaves,
Judy Mowatt,
Tom Boy,
Scratch Acid,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Smiths,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barrington Levy,
Agitation Free,
Joe Finger,
Radio Birdman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nico,
Amon Düül,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Christie,
Outsiders,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Black Dice,
Jacques Brel,
DJ Style,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Fugazi,
Crispian St. Peters,
Saccharine Trust,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.