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 Maldives and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Young Rascals to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Joy Division,
The Moody Blues,
Warren Ellis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Newcleus,
Sex Pistols,
MC5,
Average White Band,
Black Moon,
These Immortal Souls,
The Wake,
Easy Going,
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
Essential Logic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moss Icon,
AZ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Slave,
Wire,
The Red Krayola,
Lalann,
The Remains,
Jeff Lynne,
Hoover,
Camberwell Now,
Chrome,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Hill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Trumans Water,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Real Kids,
Visage,
Popol Vuh,
Fear,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hardrive,
Colin Newman,
Terry Callier,
Brothers Johnson,
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
the Sonics,
Pylon,
A Certain Ratio,
Glenn Branca,
Maurizio,
World's Most,
Q and Not U,
the Soft Cell,
Delta 5,
the Normal,
Kas Product,
Eddi Front,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.