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 Samoa and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Tim Buckley,
Funky Four + One,
Funkadelic,
Visage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Human League,
The Toasters,
10cc,
the Association,
John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Alphaville,
Curtis Mayfield,
La Düsseldorf,
kango's stein massive,
the Bar-Kays,
New York Dolls,
Quando Quango,
Gichy Dan,
Amon Düül II,
The Buckinghams,
John Holt,
Audionom,
Young Marble Giants,
Ituana,
Barrington Levy,
The Stooges,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Siglo XX,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Circle Jerks,
Alton Ellis,
Don Cherry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
EPMD,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Star Department,
Qualms,
Das Ding,
John Foxx,
Dennis Brown,
Sam Rivers,
Negative Approach,
Camouflage,
Nico,
Amazonics,
Monks,
Bush Tetras,
The Grass Roots,
Crash Course in Science,
The Smoke,
The Golliwogs,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultravox,
Sister Nancy,
Khruangbin,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.