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 Georgia and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cramps to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Beau Brummels,
The Durutti Column,
The Misunderstood,
The Grass Roots,
Marine Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
Dennis Brown,
Agent Orange,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boz Scaggs,
The Selecter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yaz,
Rod Modell,
Unwound,
Outsiders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris & Cosey,
James White and The Blacks,
Schoolly D,
Janne Schatter,
Tres Demented,
Cluster,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gerry Rafferty,
Altered Images,
Kas Product,
Albert Ayler,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Max Romeo,
Gichy Dan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Erykah Badu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pantytec,
Lungfish,
Quando Quango,
Funkadelic,
Rosa Yemen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
X-101,
Easy Going,
The Dead C,
Half Japanese,
Y Pants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vladislav Delay,
The Wake,
Joyce Sims,
JFA,
June of 44,
Interpol,
Index,
Arcadia,
The Monochrome Set,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Swans,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.