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 Uzbekistan and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Pet Shop Boys to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
John Coltrane,
The Fortunes,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agent Orange,
Hashim,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Germs,
These Immortal Souls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tres Demented,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Iggy Pop,
This Heat,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Urselle,
Lyres,
Roy Ayers,
Sight & Sound,
Neil Young,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
the Human League,
Eric Copeland,
Steve Hackett,
Cymande,
Scion,
Ultra Naté,
Whodini,
Quadrant,
Kaleidoscope,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Quantec,
Pagans,
Procol Harum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Electric Prunes,
The Dirtbombs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Charles Mingus,
Grauzone,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Sonics,
Terry Callier,
The J.B.'s,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Standells,
10cc,
Scientists,
Pantaleimon,
Skriet,
Wally Richardson,
David Axelrod,
Ossler,
The Golliwogs,
The Velvet Underground,
Dual Sessions,
Duran Duran,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.