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 Poland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Khruangbin to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Visage,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
Tim Buckley,
The Blues Magoos,
Kool Moe Dee,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Q and Not U,
Danielle Patucci,
a-ha,
The Young Rascals,
Mandrill,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
The Sonics,
Crooked Eye,
D'Angelo,
48th St. Collective,
Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Brick,
Sällskapet,
Fugazi,
Bluetip,
Soul II Soul,
The United States of America,
David McCallum,
Ludus,
Fatback Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Franke,
Symarip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dennis Brown,
The Slackers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joey Negro,
David Axelrod,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gladiators,
Sonic Youth,
Newcleus,
Swans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Andrew Hill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lou Reed,
Das Ding,
Idris Muhammad,
Joy Division,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flipper,
Black Bananas,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.