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 Gabon and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno 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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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?
The Residents,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Durutti Column,
The Invisible,
Kerri Chandler,
Drexciya,
Minny Pops,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Bananas,
Wasted Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
Buzzcocks,
Ronan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Junior Murvin,
Masters at Work,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Techniques,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback,
Whodini,
Main Source,
Massinfluence,
Letta Mbulu,
New Age Steppers,
The Monochrome Set,
Suicide,
Piero Umiliani,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rapeman,
Joe Finger,
Dual Sessions,
Liliput,
Judy Mowatt,
Nirvana,
The Moody Blues,
Babytalk,
The Birthday Party,
Glenn Branca,
Scrapy,
a-ha,
Pere Ubu,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
The Doors,
Joyce Sims,
Kurtis Blow,
Procol Harum,
Pharoah Sanders,
Groovy Waters,
Gastr Del Sol,
FM Einheit,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minnie Riperton,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.