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 South Africa and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Godley & Creme to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Thee Headcoats,
Deakin,
the Association,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Kinks,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
Derrick Morgan,
OOIOO,
Crooked Eye,
Fluxion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Todd Terry,
Brand Nubian,
Depeche Mode,
Main Source,
The Zeros,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Carl Craig,
Glenn Branca,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mary Jane Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Lynne,
Lee Hazlewood,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
The Standells,
Cheater Slicks,
Symarip,
Ituana,
Soft Machine,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Excepter,
Trumans Water,
Throbbing Gristle,
Warren Ellis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smiths,
Sight & Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Infiniti,
K-Klass,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
Cal Tjader,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mojo Men,
Scrapy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nils Olav,
Faust,
Erasure,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.