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 Costa Rica and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe 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 The Moleskins to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Trumans Water,
The Flesh Eaters,
Chrome,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Womack,
The Martian,
Kaleidoscope,
Moss Icon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donald Byrd,
The Young Rascals,
Scientists,
Gastr Del Sol,
June Days,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Index,
Flamin' Groovies,
Al Stewart,
Ossler,
Junior Murvin,
This Heat,
the Human League,
Chris & Cosey,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gichy Dan,
Theoretical Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
Yusef Lateef,
Alton Ellis,
F. McDonald,
The Gap Band,
Slick Rick,
David Bowie,
Barrington Levy,
Bootsy Collins,
Slave,
Stiv Bators,
Delta 5,
Tomorrow,
In Retrospect,
Tres Demented,
Motorama,
Gang Green,
Don Cherry,
FM Einheit,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Byron Stingily,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
Japan,
Duran Duran,
the Germs,
Alison Limerick,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.