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 Russia and from Lille.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Essential Logic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kas Product,
Letta Mbulu,
Graham Central Station,
Alton Ellis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yusef Lateef,
Anakelly,
MC5,
Marmalade,
The Gun Club,
Visage,
The Angels of Light,
Second Layer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Technova,
R.M.O.,
The Stooges,
Alice Coltrane,
Lyres,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Colin Newman,
Pulsallama,
Deadbeat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rod Modell,
Schoolly D,
Unrelated Segments,
Blancmange,
Bobby Sherman,
The Barracudas,
Television Personalities,
Section 25,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Bourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Beau Brummels,
Radio Birdman,
Nik Kershaw,
Sugar Minott,
Nas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kenny Larkin,
The Monks,
Ultravox,
The Motions,
Gichy Dan,
Connie Case,
the Sonics,
Suicide,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Little Man,
Althea and Donna,
Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barry Ungar,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.