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 Jamaica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Nation of Ulysses to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
CMW,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Aswad,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Organ,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiohead,
Sällskapet,
Joensuu 1685,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Magazine,
Anthony Braxton,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare,
The Busters,
Amon Düül II,
Bauhaus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gabor Szabo,
The Young Rascals,
Q and Not U,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brick,
Drexciya,
X-101,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joe Smooth,
The Divine Comedy,
Wolf Eyes,
Faraquet,
Robert Görl,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tim Buckley,
Man Eating Sloth,
Joyce Sims,
Erasure,
Interpol,
Roger Hodgson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nas,
New Age Steppers,
Leonard Cohen,
Janne Schatter,
Infiniti,
Aural Exciters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Flag,
Tommy Roe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Excepter,
David McCallum,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.