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 Azerbaijan 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Flash Fearless to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
The Black Dice,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glenn Branca,
Youth Brigade,
The Knickerbockers,
Von Mondo,
Nick Fraelich,
Panda Bear,
Aaron Thompson,
John Foxx,
Babytalk,
Kayak,
Basic Channel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fat Boys,
Black Sheep,
The New Christs,
Deakin,
PIL,
Tomorrow,
Althea and Donna,
The Martian,
Bobby Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minny Pops,
Section 25,
Soulsonic Force,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gregory Isaacs,
This Heat,
Faraquet,
The Raincoats,
Avey Tare,
Jacob Miller,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Judy Mowatt,
The Offenders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Talk Talk,
Excepter,
Surgeon,
Black Flag,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gong,
Fatback Band,
The Names,
Television Personalities,
Pylon,
June of 44,
The Dave Clark Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Busters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Almond,
Swans,
the Germs,
Marvin Gaye,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.