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 Niger and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kenny Larkin 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rufus Thomas,
Steve Hackett,
The Raincoats,
The Happenings,
Black Bananas,
Bootsy Collins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Kenny Larkin,
Eden Ahbez,
Con Funk Shun,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Suburban Knight,
Josef K,
Skriet,
Ronan,
Pole,
Pere Ubu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mars,
Black Moon,
Leonard Cohen,
Q and Not U,
Yusef Lateef,
Fear,
Zapp,
Bob Dylan,
Livin' Joy,
Average White Band,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joy Division,
The New Christs,
Thee Headcoats,
Henry Cow,
The Mojo Men,
Donny Hathaway,
Electric Prunes,
Pantaleimon,
Black Flag,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DNA,
Tom Boy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Real Kids,
Neil Young,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Charles Mingus,
Amazonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Angry Samoans,
Nas,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lower 48,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.