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 India and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Human League to the disco 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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Ludus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brothers Johnson,
June Days,
John Foxx,
Hot Snakes,
Barrington Levy,
Brass Construction,
Fad Gadget,
Procol Harum,
Mo-Dettes,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gap Band,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pussy Galore,
Colin Newman,
Youth Brigade,
The Young Rascals,
The Sound,
The Standells,
Fatback Band,
Deakin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Main Source,
Tommy Roe,
Roger Hodgson,
Thompson Twins,
Kurtis Blow,
The Durutti Column,
Panda Bear,
The Human League,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Toasters,
The Velvet Underground,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wolf Eyes,
Agent Orange,
K-Klass,
Motorama,
Hashim,
Black Sheep,
Japan,
Sonic Youth,
Altered Images,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Clarke,
Whodini,
Ronan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Qualms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronnie Foster,
the Slits,
Hoover,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker,
Swell Maps,
Angry Samoans,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.