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 Sri Lanka and from Mumbai.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Amon Düül II to the rock 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Sonics,
Roxy Music,
Tom Boy,
Supertramp,
Skaos,
Young Marble Giants,
Make Up,
Lalann,
Livin' Joy,
Zapp,
Ronan,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Offenders,
Faust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
T.S.O.L.,
Oneida,
Bang On A Can,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Litter,
Warsaw,
Angry Samoans,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry,
Davy DMX,
Severed Heads,
Parry Music,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
Guru Guru,
Rakim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wally Richardson,
Pantytec,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Blackbyrds,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yazoo,
B.T. Express,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arthur Verocai,
Bill Wells,
Boz Scaggs,
Gong,
The Busters,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Intrusion,
Ultra Naté,
Soft Cell,
Cluster,
The Fugs,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.