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 Swaziland and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radiohead to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Groovy Waters,
Robert Hood,
Animal Collective,
Rites of Spring,
The Toasters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Arthur Verocai,
Thee Headcoats,
Excepter,
Boredoms,
Mantronix,
Magma,
These Immortal Souls,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arab on Radar,
Laurel Aitken,
The Black Dice,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blossom Toes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ralphi Rosario,
One Last Wish,
Ronnie Foster,
Skriet,
Reagan Youth,
the Soft Cell,
The Slits,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Country Teasers,
DJ Sneak,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Sheep,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roger Hodgson,
Lakeside,
Tom Boy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wolf Eyes,
Darondo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mandrill,
Curtis Mayfield,
Girls At Our Best!,
The J.B.'s,
Con Funk Shun,
Terry Callier,
Tommy Roe,
Gang of Four,
Radiohead,
Bush Tetras,
Funkadelic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.