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 Estonia and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Accadde A 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Scan 7,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bronski Beat,
Silicon Teens,
Anthony Braxton,
The Monochrome Set,
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free,
Mr. Review,
Ten City,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Metal Thangz,
Scion,
Lungfish,
New Age Steppers,
Tom Boy,
Toni Rubio,
Motorama,
Faraquet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Procol Harum,
Aloha Tigers,
Kurtis Blow,
Audionom,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pharoah Sanders,
Adolescents,
The New Christs,
Thee Headcoats,
Chris Corsano,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Boredoms,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Machine,
Magma,
Fluxion,
Negative Approach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eric Dolphy,
Fela Kuti,
Pierre Henry,
Q and Not U,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Second Layer,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerri Chandler,
Guru Guru,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Theoretical Girls,
Smog,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Goldenarms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hasil Adkins,
Tears for Fears,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suicide,
The Fire Engines,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.