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 Kyrgyzstan 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lakeside to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dawn Penn,
the Human League,
The Residents,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Niagra,
Crispy Ambulance,
Charles Mingus,
Oblivians,
Swell Maps,
LL Cool J,
KRS-One,
Kerrie Biddell,
Buzzcocks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lindisfarne,
Slick Rick,
The Birthday Party,
Wasted Youth,
Janne Schatter,
Cal Tjader,
China Crisis,
Boredoms,
Don Cherry,
Agent Orange,
Average White Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Copeland,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Model 500,
Glenn Branca,
Panda Bear,
JFA,
MC5,
Marmalade,
the Association,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker,
Quando Quango,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Slave,
AZ,
Silicon Teens,
Dead Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Ituana,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
Ponytail,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Moss Icon,
Robert Hood,
Surgeon,
Hasil Adkins,
Lalann,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.