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 Latvia and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fad Gadget to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Starr,
Tubeway Army,
The Dirtbombs,
Boz Scaggs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Matthew Halsall,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cowsills,
The Fall,
Public Enemy,
Yaz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erasure,
David Bowie,
Dual Sessions,
Hashim,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker,
Josef K,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Lydon,
LL Cool J,
The Seeds,
Jawbox,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tears for Fears,
Nas,
The Fugs,
Yusef Lateef,
The Victims,
Marmalade,
Soul II Soul,
The Walker Brothers,
Fluxion,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Reuben Wilson,
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Jandek,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cal Tjader,
Fugazi,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Invisible,
Pole,
Henry Cow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gong,
Q65,
Amon Düül II,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.