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 Bulgaria and from Tokyo.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kerri Chandler to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Ultimate Spinach,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sonics,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kenny Larkin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hoover,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Roxy Music,
Mantronix,
The Cure,
The Smoke,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Newcleus,
Alphaville,
The Slits,
H. Thieme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Rundgren,
Franke,
The Blues Magoos,
Panda Bear,
E-Dancer,
Erykah Badu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The J.B.'s,
Kayak,
Maurizio,
The Moody Blues,
the Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mars,
Heaven 17,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
Jacob Miller,
Groovy Waters,
Barry Ungar,
Cal Tjader,
Severed Heads,
Roger Hodgson,
The Kinks,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
The Angels of Light,
KRS-One,
Sonic Youth,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
the Normal,
Jawbox,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eve St. Jones,
Ohio Players,
The Misunderstood,
Gong,
Danielle Patucci,
Lakeside,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.