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 Kyrgyzstan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes 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 Barclay James Harvest to the rock 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Ultimate Spinach,
ABC,
The Names,
Bobby Sherman,
Dennis Brown,
Robert Görl,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alton Ellis,
Minor Threat,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Vogues,
Rosa Yemen,
Minnie Riperton,
Amon Düül II,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Slackers,
Nick Fraelich,
Brass Construction,
K-Klass,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jandek,
Excepter,
The J.B.'s,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash,
H. Thieme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Severed Heads,
a-ha,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Icehouse,
Barrington Levy,
Ultra Naté,
B.T. Express,
The Alarm Clocks,
Iggy Pop,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Slave,
Fad Gadget,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Warsaw,
Fluxion,
Adolescents,
Eurythmics,
The Gladiators,
Niagra,
Idris Muhammad,
The Selecter,
Scientists,
Nico,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
The Seeds,
Television,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.