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 Bahrain and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 CMW to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
The Move,
Sugar Minott,
Essential Logic,
Marvin Gaye,
The Remains,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed,
Television,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marine Girls,
Duran Duran,
The Toasters,
Loose Ends,
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Neu!,
Blossom Toes,
Darondo,
Quadrant,
Jeff Mills,
Procol Harum,
Jimmy McGriff,
Throbbing Gristle,
Icehouse,
Peter & Gordon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pussy Galore,
Spandau Ballet,
Dead Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roger Hodgson,
The Buckinghams,
Wasted Youth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Music Machine,
The Cramps,
Shuggie Otis,
Patti Smith,
David McCallum,
Masters at Work,
Blake Baxter,
Tomorrow,
Monolake,
Man Eating Sloth,
Technova,
Charles Mingus,
The J.B.'s,
Blancmange,
Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barbara Tucker,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Sheep,
Country Teasers,
Brick,
Television Personalities,
The Offenders,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.