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 the UAE and from Tokyo.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Leonard Cohen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Panda Bear,
Stetsasonic,
Yellowson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythm & Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
Audionom,
The Count Five,
Khruangbin,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kurtis Blow,
Cal Tjader,
Flash Fearless,
Suicide,
Roxette,
David Bowie,
The Pretty Things,
The Beau Brummels,
Josef K,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bang On A Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blake Baxter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
The Golliwogs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ohio Players,
Jerry's Kids,
The Birthday Party,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Mills,
Accadde A,
Ornette Coleman,
The Invisible,
Parry Music,
The Martian,
Underground Resistance,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slackers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Youth Brigade,
The Doors,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
Arab on Radar,
Camouflage,
Michelle Simonal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.