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 Mauritius and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Pussy Galore,
Blake Baxter,
Mad Mike,
Silicon Teens,
John Cale,
Vainqueur,
Bad Manners,
Massinfluence,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bill Wells,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker,
Au Pairs,
The American Breed,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
The Tremeloes,
Rod Modell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ponytail,
The Young Rascals,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mission of Burma,
Faraquet,
Fatback Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skaos,
Mark Hollis,
Excepter,
Moby Grape,
Kas Product,
Cameo,
Simply Red,
Neil Young,
Soft Cell,
48th St. Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Holt,
Idris Muhammad,
Loose Ends,
Bronski Beat,
Nik Kershaw,
Deakin,
Von Mondo,
Amazonics,
Lakeside,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
U.S. Maple,
Wally Richardson,
The Cure,
Hashim,
The Gun Club,
One Last Wish,
Model 500,
Rufus Thomas,
Lucky Dragons,
The Angels of Light,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.