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 Burkina and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron 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 Ponytail to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico 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?
Arcadia,
Quadrant,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Lynne,
The Count Five,
Prince Buster,
Darondo,
The Barracudas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neil Young,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flash Fearless,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
Camouflage,
Public Image Ltd.,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Toasters,
Magma,
MC5,
Electric Light Orchestra,
LL Cool J,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Velvet Underground,
Pet Shop Boys,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The American Breed,
Ossler,
Pagans,
Joensuu 1685,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sound Behaviour,
Carl Craig,
The Fuzztones,
Byron Stingily,
Guru Guru,
The Five Americans,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Seeds,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nils Olav,
The Human League,
This Heat,
Outsiders,
Joe Smooth,
the Slits,
Masters at Work,
Morten Harket,
Junior Murvin,
Liliput,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ornette Coleman,
Silicon Teens,
Bob Dylan,
Chris & Cosey,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Byrd,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.