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 Comoros and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Matthew Halsall to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Piero Umiliani,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry's Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Sonics,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Bananas,
Davy DMX,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Barbara Tucker,
Simply Red,
Lakeside,
Black Flag,
Zero Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Smog,
Ronan,
Groovy Waters,
Joensuu 1685,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bobby Hutcherson,
ABBA,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Negative Approach,
Leonard Cohen,
Joe Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
X-101,
Audionom,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Martian,
the Slits,
The Happenings,
Wally Richardson,
Rosa Yemen,
FM Einheit,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marmalade,
Robert Hood,
Ultravox,
Ponytail,
The Techniques,
Rufus Thomas,
The Offenders,
Suicide,
Jeff Lynne,
The Fortunes,
Peter and Kerry,
Johnny Clarke,
Funkadelic,
Joyce Sims,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.