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 Cuba and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Average White Band,
Rod Modell,
The Victims,
Big Daddy Kane,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blake Baxter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Spandau Ballet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Spoonie Gee,
Oneida,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Henry Cow,
Jeff Lynne,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed,
Pole,
Sällskapet,
Bobby Sherman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Q65,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
Unwound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Foxx,
Lower 48,
Brand Nubian,
Black Bananas,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash,
One Last Wish,
Ultra Naté,
Kas Product,
Reagan Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
John Cale,
48th St. Collective,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rosa Yemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
The Skatalites,
Kaleidoscope,
This Heat,
Essential Logic,
Tom Boy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Youth Brigade,
Brothers Johnson,
Isaac Hayes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Remains,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.