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 Comoros and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
The Happenings,
Rhythm & Sound,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Swans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
Bill Wells,
John Cale,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Parry Music,
Eli Mardock,
Arcadia,
Scientists,
Amon Düül II,
cv313,
Jeff Lynne,
Quadrant,
Zapp,
Aural Exciters,
Bauhaus,
Stiv Bators,
Mandrill,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pantytec,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Moleskins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scan 7,
The J.B.'s,
Scratch Acid,
Sam Rivers,
the Soft Cell,
The Kinks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grauzone,
Sound Behaviour,
John Coltrane,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Albert Ayler,
Kenny Larkin,
OOIOO,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
The Young Rascals,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sonic Youth,
Blake Baxter,
New Order,
Qualms,
Fatback Band,
CMW,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.