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 Ecuador and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 David McCallum to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO 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?
Deepchord,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Smiths,
Swans,
Can,
Tubeway Army,
The Invisible,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Henry Cow,
Roxy Music,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camouflage,
Yazoo,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sister Nancy,
Kayak,
Quadrant,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bizarre Inc.,
Laurel Aitken,
Crispy Ambulance,
Main Source,
Japan,
the Germs,
Pulsallama,
Moebius,
Girls At Our Best!,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hashim,
Mo-Dettes,
Whodini,
The Victims,
Slave,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Delta 5,
B.T. Express,
The Zeros,
Ultra Naté,
Black Flag,
Marc Almond,
Nils Olav,
Negative Approach,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Residents,
Quando Quango,
The Gap Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Pierre Henry,
Infiniti,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Lyres,
Lebanon Hanover,
Erykah Badu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nik Kershaw,
Inner City,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.