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 Nicaragua and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Godley & Creme to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wings,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Organ,
Goldenarms,
Joe Smooth,
The Wake,
Gong,
Blossom Toes,
Fugazi,
Babytalk,
Aswad,
Iggy Pop,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
Animal Collective,
Popol Vuh,
Warsaw,
the Bar-Kays,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MC5,
Slave,
The Vogues,
Chrome,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
Aural Exciters,
Todd Terry,
Anakelly,
Bad Manners,
David McCallum,
The Divine Comedy,
The Beau Brummels,
Main Source,
The Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Half Japanese,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Talk Talk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Technova,
The Evens,
Index,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
Minny Pops,
Colin Newman,
James White and The Blacks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.