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 Norway and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Masters at Work to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
The Happenings,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mr. Review,
Basic Channel,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Bill Wells,
Agent Orange,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ludus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
10cc,
Joe Finger,
Freddie Wadling,
David Bowie,
LL Cool J,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Loose Ends,
The Cramps,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lou Christie,
Michelle Simonal,
Connie Case,
Barclay James Harvest,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Beau Brummels,
Section 25,
Essential Logic,
Newcleus,
Junior Murvin,
Hoover,
Pharoah Sanders,
Danielle Patucci,
Accadde A,
Stiv Bators,
Swans,
Procol Harum,
Television,
Max Romeo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moebius,
Qualms,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Sheep,
Desert Stars,
Toni Rubio,
In Retrospect,
Monolake,
Metal Thangz,
The Electric Prunes,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Pretty Things,
Eli Mardock,
Massinfluence,
Fat Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Q and Not U,
The Litter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.