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 Laos and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Vainqueur to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Carl Craig,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Q and Not U,
Alphaville,
The Seeds,
Tears for Fears,
Piero Umiliani,
Donny Hathaway,
Scion,
The Pretty Things,
Babytalk,
Essential Logic,
Radiohead,
Kenny Larkin,
The Black Dice,
The American Breed,
Dawn Penn,
Skaos,
FM Einheit,
ABBA,
Easy Going,
Avey Tare,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alton Ellis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chrome,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hashim,
48th St. Collective,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cybotron,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marc Almond,
World's Most,
Gastr Del Sol,
ABC,
Byron Stingily,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Eli Mardock,
Radio Birdman,
Juan Atkins,
JFA,
Sight & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Wolf Eyes,
Cameo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Selecter,
The Gun Club,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.