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 Norway and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
The Sonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jacob Miller,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Human League,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Magazine,
Brand Nubian,
PIL,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Todd Rundgren,
The Pop Group,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rotary Connection,
Skaos,
Qualms,
The American Breed,
Gang of Four,
Nik Kershaw,
Neil Young,
Aswad,
Banda Bassotti,
Crime,
The Knickerbockers,
The Zeros,
Vainqueur,
Aloha Tigers,
Gichy Dan,
Reagan Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Josef K,
Rufus Thomas,
The Fugs,
Stereo Dub,
Fad Gadget,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Count Five,
Minor Threat,
The Cure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donald Byrd,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dead Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
AZ,
Scott Walker,
John Cale,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.