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 Oman and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ 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 Clear Light to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
The Slits,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aural Exciters,
Saccharine Trust,
Girls At Our Best!,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Clear Light,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marmalade,
Flipper,
The Walker Brothers,
Franke,
Charles Mingus,
The Electric Prunes,
Max Romeo,
Animal Collective,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gong,
Adolescents,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Human League,
Babytalk,
Banda Bassotti,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thompson Twins,
Moby Grape,
June Days,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jacob Miller,
Tropical Tobacco,
John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rapeman,
The Birthday Party,
Surgeon,
Joe Finger,
David Axelrod,
Mission of Burma,
Television,
Radiohead,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Cramps,
Sister Nancy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultra Naté,
T. Rex,
Minny Pops,
Pagans,
Sight & Sound,
the Germs,
Black Bananas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moebius,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Accadde A,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cluster,
Letta Mbulu,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.