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 United Kingdom 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Rotary Connection to the disco 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Popol Vuh,
Echospace,
Oneida,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Red Krayola,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Q and Not U,
Kayak,
Suicide,
Connie Case,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bluetip,
the Association,
Cheater Slicks,
Stereo Dub,
The Pretty Things,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Angels of Light,
Nirvana,
Shuggie Otis,
Ice-T,
Lyres,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Mojo Men,
cv313,
The Black Dice,
Tim Buckley,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Associates,
Liliput,
Technova,
June Days,
Quantec,
Suburban Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Janne Schatter,
The Buckinghams,
Agent Orange,
Electric Prunes,
Charles Mingus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arthur Verocai,
The Walker Brothers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Graham Central Station,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cameo,
Moss Icon,
Pylon,
T. Rex,
Eve St. Jones,
Moby Grape,
New Age Steppers,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.