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 Bolivia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord 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 Accadde A to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
This Heat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Monolake,
Aswad,
Easy Going,
cv313,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
Babytalk,
Robert Wyatt,
Drexciya,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
The Monochrome Set,
Camouflage,
Maurizio,
Tubeway Army,
Crime,
The Smiths,
The Flesh Eaters,
Unwound,
Black Flag,
David McCallum,
Wasted Youth,
Quantec,
Cal Tjader,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Bronski Beat,
Minutemen,
Smog,
Flipper,
The Pop Group,
Whodini,
Alison Limerick,
Nico,
The Names,
Cybotron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Faraquet,
Pagans,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
The Saints,
Faust,
Sister Nancy,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ponytail,
Joey Negro,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Dolphy,
The Move,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Massinfluence,
Rites of Spring,
The Fall,
Soft Cell,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.