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 Austria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
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 linndrum 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 Laurel Aitken to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Moss Icon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Delta 5,
Bad Manners,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Green,
Byron Stingily,
Cheater Slicks,
The Red Krayola,
Surgeon,
Ludus,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Finger,
Unwound,
Q and Not U,
Aswad,
The Smiths,
The Cure,
Marmalade,
Hasil Adkins,
Bauhaus,
Rotary Connection,
Au Pairs,
New Age Steppers,
Gang of Four,
Royal Trux,
Sonic Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Hardrive,
Barclay James Harvest,
New Order,
Ituana,
The Moleskins,
Danielle Patucci,
John Coltrane,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slick Rick,
Matthew Bourne,
The Techniques,
Oblivians,
Average White Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tomorrow,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gladiators,
The Divine Comedy,
Quantec,
Black Bananas,
Panda Bear,
Radiopuhelimet,
Y Pants,
Grey Daturas,
Al Stewart,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.