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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
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 Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Standells to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tears for Fears,
ABBA,
Whodini,
Sunsets and Hearts,
LL Cool J,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amazonics,
Scientists,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Section 25,
Chris Corsano,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blancmange,
PIL,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Outsiders,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Supertramp,
The United States of America,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Machine,
Robert Görl,
Sam Rivers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Inner City,
Stockholm Monsters,
Siglo XX,
Faust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Residents,
The Knickerbockers,
Hoover,
Connie Case,
Marcia Griffiths,
Qualms,
Anthony Braxton,
Faraquet,
The Remains,
Avey Tare,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Skatalites,
Susan Cadogan,
The Toasters,
John Lydon,
Bobby Sherman,
The Five Americans,
Essential Logic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.