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 Philippines and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bronski Beat to the punk 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Sound Behaviour,
The Slits,
Al Stewart,
The Leaves,
Tears for Fears,
the Soft Cell,
Leonard Cohen,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alphaville,
Visage,
Icehouse,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
Q65,
The Fuzztones,
The Busters,
The Vogues,
Buzzcocks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warren Ellis,
Chrome,
Bauhaus,
Albert Ayler,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wire,
H. Thieme,
Byron Stingily,
MC5,
L. Decosne,
Judy Mowatt,
the Slits,
the Bar-Kays,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boredoms,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scratch Acid,
10cc,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Section 25,
Yaz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rites of Spring,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Popol Vuh,
June of 44,
David McCallum,
Scion,
Charles Mingus,
Yusef Lateef,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
The Raincoats,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free,
The Tremeloes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Smog,
Rufus Thomas,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.