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 Burundi and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Dawn Penn to the crunk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fad Gadget,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soulsonic Force,
PIL,
The Real Kids,
Desert Stars,
Toni Rubio,
New York Dolls,
June of 44,
Chrome,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Todd Rundgren,
Make Up,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Happenings,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Average White Band,
Arab on Radar,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Black Sheep,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Inner City,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young,
Crash Course in Science,
Mandrill,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skarface,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Agent Orange,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pretty Things,
Sugar Minott,
Symarip,
Guru Guru,
Boredoms,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Starr,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
UT,
Gong,
Gang Green,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jacob Miller,
The Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Darondo,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.