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 Bahrain and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jacob Miller to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Harmonia,
Quantec,
Adolescents,
X-101,
The Offenders,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Motions,
the Bar-Kays,
Swell Maps,
Sarah Menescal,
Main Source,
the Sonics,
Roxette,
The Skatalites,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Clear Light,
Bang On A Can,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Litter,
The Barracudas,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Womack,
Pantytec,
Smog,
The Gap Band,
Moebius,
The Cowsills,
Gichy Dan,
Lightning Bolt,
Roxy Music,
JFA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Derrick May,
Mars,
K-Klass,
The Saints,
The Residents,
Panda Bear,
Yusef Lateef,
Crash Course in Science,
Eve St. Jones,
Throbbing Gristle,
John Foxx,
Carl Craig,
The Young Rascals,
Mary Jane Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Rekid,
The Neon Judgement,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.