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 Montenegro and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barry Ungar 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Donny Hathaway,
Hashim,
T.S.O.L.,
The Offenders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barrington Levy,
Chris Corsano,
The Leaves,
Desert Stars,
The Buckinghams,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anakelly,
The Raincoats,
Porter Ricks,
Rites of Spring,
The Barracudas,
June Days,
The Pop Group,
John Lydon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yusef Lateef,
Kas Product,
Fat Boys,
CMW,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Jeff Mills,
Ultra Naté,
Funkadelic,
Tears for Fears,
The Wake,
Section 25,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bush Tetras,
UT,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Panda Bear,
Gastr Del Sol,
Animal Collective,
Cheater Slicks,
Minnie Riperton,
Spandau Ballet,
Radio Birdman,
Bang On A Can,
Oblivians,
Silicon Teens,
B.T. Express,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roy Ayers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minny Pops,
Reagan Youth,
Nico,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Michelle Simonal,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.