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 Mexico and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Technova to the techno 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
The Victims,
Jandek,
Joey Negro,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Main Source,
Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Quantec,
Tropical Tobacco,
Amon Düül II,
Scientists,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül,
Minutemen,
Sonic Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
T.S.O.L.,
Basic Channel,
David Axelrod,
Yusef Lateef,
MDC,
Funkadelic,
Unrelated Segments,
Erasure,
Nico,
Johnny Clarke,
UT,
Pulsallama,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantaleimon,
Mantronix,
Gang of Four,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Judy Mowatt,
Half Japanese,
Scratch Acid,
Matthew Halsall,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Alarm Clocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tommy Roe,
Dave Gahan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Music Machine,
Al Stewart,
Ultravox,
Black Flag,
James White and The Blacks,
Pagans,
Surgeon,
Lou Reed,
Brick,
Porter Ricks,
Pierre Henry,
John Cale,
Junior Murvin,
the Soft Cell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.