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 Romania and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Alice Coltrane to the dance 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Aaron Thompson,
the Slits,
The Mummies,
Electric Prunes,
Subhumans,
The Cowsills,
Dark Day,
Hasil Adkins,
Cybotron,
Pere Ubu,
Groovy Waters,
June of 44,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Interpol,
The Move,
John Holt,
Pagans,
DNA,
The Fall,
The Walker Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Danielle Patucci,
Wasted Youth,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
UT,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Theoretical Girls,
Robert Wyatt,
The United States of America,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Nico,
L. Decosne,
Rosa Yemen,
Johnny Clarke,
Eli Mardock,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Excepter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Count Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fela Kuti,
Lucky Dragons,
Jeff Mills,
The Fuzztones,
Amon Düül,
Delta 5,
Blancmange,
Bronski Beat,
Dorothy Ashby,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Unrelated Segments,
LL Cool J,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Davy DMX,
Procol Harum,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.