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 Mali and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
OOIOO,
Rod Modell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fad Gadget,
Pet Shop Boys,
Make Up,
Saccharine Trust,
Arab on Radar,
Chris & Cosey,
Barrington Levy,
Model 500,
Eden Ahbez,
Moss Icon,
Yellowson,
Fat Boys,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Be Bop Deluxe,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Robert Görl,
Fifty Foot Hose,
These Immortal Souls,
The Cowsills,
Black Bananas,
Agent Orange,
Delta 5,
Los Fastidios,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Freddie Wadling,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Susan Cadogan,
Second Layer,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swell Maps,
John Cale,
Warren Ellis,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Lucky Dragons,
The Zeros,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nik Kershaw,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wally Richardson,
The Saints,
Fluxion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Hood,
Ultra Naté,
Harpers Bizarre,
Basic Channel,
Shuggie Otis,
Davy DMX,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.