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 Libya and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chocolate Watch Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Wolf Eyes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Basic Channel,
Matthew Bourne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Kinks,
Vladislav Delay,
Kerri Chandler,
Rakim,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
Tom Boy,
Harry Pussy,
Scrapy,
Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scan 7,
Duran Duran,
The United States of America,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Velvet Underground,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Slick Rick,
Cheater Slicks,
Todd Terry,
Eve St. Jones,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
Crooked Eye,
Sun Ra,
Electric Prunes,
One Last Wish,
The Human League,
MDC,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Livin' Joy,
The Gap Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nick Fraelich,
Susan Cadogan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Offenders,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Standells,
Ronnie Foster,
Infiniti,
48th St. Collective,
the Normal,
Albert Ayler,
John Coltrane,
Mission of Burma,
Moby Grape,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Max Romeo,
The Smiths,
Howard Jones,
Grauzone,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.