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 Israel and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Derrick Morgan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Godley & Creme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Bar-Kays,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Popol Vuh,
Aaron Thompson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Procol Harum,
Whodini,
Au Pairs,
Shoche,
The Seeds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Reagan Youth,
Ten City,
Lou Christie,
Siglo XX,
Adolescents,
Ultra Naté,
a-ha,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Saints,
Dark Day,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ronnie Foster,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
The Leaves,
Arcadia,
Terry Callier,
Minor Threat,
Crash Course in Science,
Duran Duran,
Circle Jerks,
Faraquet,
John Cale,
The Raincoats,
Sam Rivers,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Warsaw,
Lungfish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deakin,
Robert Hood,
Second Layer,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ken Boothe,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.