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 Czech Republic 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Nico to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Eating Sloth,
Eden Ahbez,
ABC,
Josef K,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
Al Stewart,
Jerry's Kids,
Deadbeat,
KRS-One,
The Fugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Heaven 17,
Sam Rivers,
Sparks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Invisible,
Gichy Dan,
Michelle Simonal,
Subhumans,
Maleditus Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Flash Fearless,
Pulsallama,
Harry Pussy,
The Offenders,
Chris & Cosey,
the Soft Cell,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marvin Gaye,
Pussy Galore,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roxy Music,
Underground Resistance,
Crime,
Slick Rick,
Radio Birdman,
Minor Threat,
Lindisfarne,
Bronski Beat,
Black Bananas,
Q and Not U,
Visage,
UT,
Blake Baxter,
Essential Logic,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
Moby Grape,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Minnie Riperton,
Nick Fraelich,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Christie,
David Axelrod,
The Smiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Smog,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.