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 Tunisia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bronski Beat to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Darondo,
Bronski Beat,
Grauzone,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich,
Warren Ellis,
The Angels of Light,
Arthur Verocai,
Depeche Mode,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Saccharine Trust,
Essential Logic,
DJ Sneak,
Masters at Work,
PIL,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Wyatt,
Thee Headcoats,
Gichy Dan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Amon Düül,
X-Ray Spex,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Derrick Morgan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Fear,
Supertramp,
Sex Pistols,
Moebius,
Flash Fearless,
The Victims,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
The Gladiators,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stereo Dub,
Public Image Ltd.,
Adolescents,
The Fall,
Steve Hackett,
DJ Style,
Bush Tetras,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Todd Terry,
Make Up,
The United States of America,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rod Modell,
Don Cherry,
Surgeon,
Franke,
Dual Sessions,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fire Engines,
Reagan Youth,
The Fugs,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.