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 Israel and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Zero Boys to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
In Retrospect,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Hood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jandek,
Mo-Dettes,
Idris Muhammad,
Sixth Finger,
Delta 5,
Con Funk Shun,
The Selecter,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Bourne,
Derrick May,
Boz Scaggs,
T.S.O.L.,
Sam Rivers,
The Residents,
Outsiders,
Pierre Henry,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mantronix,
Toni Rubio,
U.S. Maple,
Monks,
Yazoo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Germs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Standells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tom Boy,
Echospace,
Quantec,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thompson Twins,
Black Bananas,
The Victims,
Warsaw,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultravox,
Radio Birdman,
Can,
John Foxx,
Wire,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Panda Bear,
Reuben Wilson,
David McCallum,
Matthew Halsall,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jawbox,
Darondo,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.