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 Hungary and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Animal Collective to the techno 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mojo Men,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Simply Red,
Ultimate Spinach,
Patti Smith,
Ultravox,
Donald Byrd,
Andrew Hill,
Magma,
Groovy Waters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skaos,
Malaria!,
Gabor Szabo,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Litter,
Swans,
Minor Threat,
Blossom Toes,
The J.B.'s,
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Isaac Hayes,
China Crisis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brick,
a-ha,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Bananas,
Bootsy Collins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ponytail,
Quadrant,
Scion,
Soft Machine,
Radiohead,
Crispian St. Peters,
Junior Murvin,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonic Youth,
Excepter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
The New Christs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Vogues,
Von Mondo,
Panda Bear,
Ronnie Foster,
Tres Demented,
Nation of Ulysses,
Guru Guru,
Colin Newman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.