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 Ethiopia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
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 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Sun Ra to the punk 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
the Sonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fad Gadget,
Neil Young,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ten City,
Crash Course in Science,
Trumans Water,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soft Machine,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
L. Decosne,
Rhythm & Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eddi Front,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Blancmange,
The Zeros,
Grauzone,
Deakin,
The Pop Group,
Bob Dylan,
The Grass Roots,
Gong,
David McCallum,
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Warsaw,
Curtis Mayfield,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Simply Red,
Colin Newman,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chris Corsano,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
Babytalk,
The Residents,
The Blackbyrds,
Fluxion,
Peter and Kerry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Michelle Simonal,
The Index,
The Busters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Basic Channel,
Soul II Soul,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed,
Eric Copeland,
Chris & Cosey,
Gregory Isaacs,
MDC,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.