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 Czech Republic and from Sao Paulo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Warsaw,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brass Construction,
The Human League,
Skaos,
Sarah Menescal,
Negative Approach,
Dave Gahan,
Steve Hackett,
Fatback Band,
Pantytec,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Unwound,
Outsiders,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tears for Fears,
John Lydon,
Donny Hathaway,
Bootsy Collins,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stereo Dub,
Drexciya,
Deadbeat,
cv313,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ken Boothe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nirvana,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fugs,
Lakeside,
Theoretical Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Trumans Water,
One Last Wish,
Black Bananas,
Boz Scaggs,
Max Romeo,
China Crisis,
R.M.O.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun Ra,
the Fania All-Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Hill,
Rakim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun City Girls,
The Count Five,
Kas Product,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
PIL,
Whodini,
The Trojans,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.