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 Mauritius and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scientists,
Judy Mowatt,
Alphaville,
Matthew Halsall,
Steve Hackett,
Gang Gang Dance,
Depeche Mode,
The Slits,
Metal Thangz,
The Modern Lovers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kaleidoscope,
The Last Poets,
Connie Case,
Procol Harum,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wolf Eyes,
Panda Bear,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Khruangbin,
Bizarre Inc.,
Basic Channel,
The Count Five,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rekid,
Qualms,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rites of Spring,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cure,
The Gun Club,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Velvet Underground,
Ten City,
Underground Resistance,
CMW,
Monolake,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Reed,
Rosa Yemen,
Boz Scaggs,
Television,
Joey Negro,
Scrapy,
The Evens,
Darondo,
The American Breed,
Rod Modell,
Robert Wyatt,
Faust,
Saccharine Trust,
Gang of Four,
The Music Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.