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 Morocco and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sam Rivers,
The United States of America,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nils Olav,
The Neon Judgement,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultra Naté,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sister Nancy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sight & Sound,
Sun City Girls,
Masters at Work,
Cheater Slicks,
The Toasters,
Minny Pops,
Black Bananas,
Scion,
Goldenarms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quando Quango,
Model 500,
AZ,
The Blues Magoos,
Pantaleimon,
Schoolly D,
Ice-T,
PIL,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cybotron,
Wire,
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
La Düsseldorf,
Absolute Body Control,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bluetip,
Cal Tjader,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Prince Buster,
John Lydon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Johnny Clarke,
Electric Prunes,
Black Flag,
John Foxx,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Heaven 17,
Jandek,
Minnie Riperton,
Rakim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nirvana,
Duran Duran,
Henry Cow,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.