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 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pretty Things to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
John Holt,
Joe Smooth,
the Association,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blancmange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Lynne,
Silicon Teens,
Cal Tjader,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang Starr,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
L. Decosne,
Sight & Sound,
The Move,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX,
Don Cherry,
The Wake,
Crooked Eye,
The Raincoats,
FM Einheit,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deadbeat,
Accadde A,
Saccharine Trust,
Freddie Wadling,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Niagra,
Dawn Penn,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Victims,
Los Fastidios,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Godley & Creme,
Suicide,
Mr. Review,
Heaven 17,
Albert Ayler,
Bill Wells,
Hardrive,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Peter & Gordon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Porter Ricks,
Derrick Morgan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Faust,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.