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 China and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 UT to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
In Retrospect,
Khruangbin,
DJ Sneak,
Crash Course in Science,
Minnie Riperton,
Danielle Patucci,
Bootsy Collins,
Steve Hackett,
The Dirtbombs,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Warren Ellis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Quadrant,
The Toasters,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Hood,
The Buckinghams,
Yusef Lateef,
Joey Negro,
These Immortal Souls,
Mo-Dettes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hasil Adkins,
James White and The Blacks,
Glenn Branca,
Dave Gahan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Michelle Simonal,
Rosa Yemen,
Charles Mingus,
Don Cherry,
the Bar-Kays,
Niagra,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultravox,
The Blackbyrds,
The Five Americans,
The Residents,
Colin Newman,
Neu!,
Barrington Levy,
June Days,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter and Kerry,
Roxette,
10cc,
Negative Approach,
Lalann,
Aswad,
Vladislav Delay,
Funky Four + One,
Babytalk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Chris & Cosey,
Barry Ungar,
The Raincoats,
Ultra Naté,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.