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 Grenada and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Youth Brigade to the electroclash 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delta 5,
The Sound,
Crash Course in Science,
Scion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Five Americans,
The Gladiators,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The American Breed,
Dawn Penn,
Eli Mardock,
Metal Thangz,
Deadbeat,
Eric Copeland,
The Music Machine,
Jawbox,
Sun Ra,
Quando Quango,
Peter and Kerry,
Curtis Mayfield,
Glenn Branca,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minnie Riperton,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Remains,
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oneida,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aswad,
The Fuzztones,
The Gap Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Motions,
Rufus Thomas,
The Walker Brothers,
The Index,
10cc,
ABC,
Archie Shepp,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Human League,
Rites of Spring,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Smoke,
Zero Boys,
KRS-One,
Man Parrish,
Sex Pistols,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dennis Brown,
Connie Case,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.