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 Antigua and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Modern Lovers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
The Motions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Coltrane,
Pussy Galore,
Hot Snakes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Stetsasonic,
Ornette Coleman,
The Wake,
The Young Rascals,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tom Boy,
Camouflage,
Monolake,
Danielle Patucci,
Easy Going,
Soul II Soul,
Vainqueur,
The Residents,
Dennis Brown,
Chris Corsano,
This Heat,
The Fugs,
Con Funk Shun,
Sun Ra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
Lakeside,
the Slits,
Man Eating Sloth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Reagan Youth,
Hashim,
Marc Almond,
Tubeway Army,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joe Finger,
Kayak,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
MC5,
Moebius,
Tommy Roe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minor Threat,
Susan Cadogan,
Magma,
Ronan,
Ponytail,
Rekid,
Ten City,
Maurizio,
Crash Course in Science,
Bad Manners,
Reuben Wilson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Severed Heads,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Cure,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.