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 Nepal and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Hong Kong and Salvador.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Echospace to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Walker Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doobie Brothers,
World's Most,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Tears for Fears,
The Martian,
Pussy Galore,
Carl Craig,
Slick Rick,
JFA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skriet,
The Cowsills,
Nation of Ulysses,
Essential Logic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Severed Heads,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pagans,
John Lydon,
Easy Going,
Television Personalities,
Steve Hackett,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
Mad Mike,
Yaz,
Minutemen,
Hardrive,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon,
Pierre Henry,
ABBA,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stiv Bators,
Blossom Toes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Television,
Marvin Gaye,
Skarface,
Barrington Levy,
Warren Ellis,
Soft Machine,
Inner City,
The Moody Blues,
Au Pairs,
L. Decosne,
Sight & Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funkadelic,
48th St. Collective,
Barry Ungar,
The Raincoats,
Depeche Mode,
New York Dolls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Michelle Simonal,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.