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 Gabon and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Average White Band,
The Sound,
The Fugs,
The Pop Group,
Sister Nancy,
Ossler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dawn Penn,
Radiohead,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
K-Klass,
The Offenders,
The Gories,
Iggy Pop,
Rod Modell,
Motorama,
the Normal,
Scion,
In Retrospect,
Minny Pops,
Don Cherry,
Gang Green,
Visage,
World's Most,
Godley & Creme,
Lightning Bolt,
Bauhaus,
Robert Görl,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Harry Pussy,
ABC,
The United States of America,
Black Flag,
Cluster,
Little Man,
Agitation Free,
Panda Bear,
KRS-One,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rotary Connection,
The Motions,
The Move,
D'Angelo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soft Cell,
Bob Dylan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Sherman,
John Lydon,
Avey Tare,
Soulsonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mark Hollis,
Stetsasonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Audionom,
Quantec,
Albert Ayler,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.