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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Massinfluence to the jazz 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan 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?
Cal Tjader,
Eric Copeland,
Maleditus Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
Colin Newman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Real Kids,
Tom Boy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
EPMD,
The Knickerbockers,
Q65,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fluxion,
Easy Going,
The United States of America,
Lightning Bolt,
Television,
Deadbeat,
Bill Near,
Clear Light,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Womack,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slave,
Kerri Chandler,
Sight & Sound,
Crash Course in Science,
Anthony Braxton,
Camouflage,
Nick Fraelich,
Pere Ubu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Last Poets,
Swans,
The Sound,
Cameo,
Barrington Levy,
Interpol,
Black Sheep,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Monks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Idris Muhammad,
Half Japanese,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
One Last Wish,
Barclay James Harvest,
Babytalk,
Sun Ra,
Porter Ricks,
Television Personalities,
Scrapy,
Bauhaus,
kango's stein massive,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.