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 Panama and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Barbara Tucker to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Absolute Body Control,
Blossom Toes,
Dawn Penn,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
LL Cool J,
Archie Shepp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Index,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Durutti Column,
The Dirtbombs,
Albert Ayler,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
Ronan,
Infiniti,
Roy Ayers,
Clear Light,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Charles Mingus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lakeside,
Siglo XX,
The Seeds,
Glenn Branca,
Brand Nubian,
These Immortal Souls,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boz Scaggs,
Drexciya,
Eric Dolphy,
Kurtis Blow,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller,
Sparks,
The Move,
Rakim,
Tubeway Army,
The Barracudas,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Maleditus Sound,
Soul II Soul,
The Fuzztones,
Amon Düül,
Soft Cell,
DJ Style,
Vainqueur,
Outsiders,
Judy Mowatt,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.