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 Uganda and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar 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 Grandmaster Flash to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Accadde A,
Judy Mowatt,
New Age Steppers,
Gang Green,
Amon Düül,
The Star Department,
Amon Düül II,
John Holt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mad Mike,
Reuben Wilson,
Mantronix,
Thee Headcoats,
Motorama,
Agent Orange,
E-Dancer,
Carl Craig,
Rites of Spring,
Toni Rubio,
the Normal,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Johnny Osbourne,
Agitation Free,
Idris Muhammad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Wyatt,
Arab on Radar,
Lungfish,
Shoche,
Ultravox,
Surgeon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Boz Scaggs,
Derrick May,
Gang Gang Dance,
Todd Terry,
Black Pus,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Black Bananas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wally Richardson,
Alice Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monks,
Guru Guru,
Suburban Knight,
The Victims,
The Barracudas,
Camouflage,
Technova,
The Real Kids,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.