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 Bolivia and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the techno 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
The Invisible,
Rotary Connection,
The Beau Brummels,
The Young Rascals,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Derrick May,
Kaleidoscope,
Fatback Band,
Amon Düül,
Avey Tare,
Brothers Johnson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Enemy,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Seeds,
Sam Rivers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ronnie Foster,
Minutemen,
Colin Newman,
The Names,
Sister Nancy,
Massinfluence,
Boz Scaggs,
Chris Corsano,
Outsiders,
Kool Moe Dee,
EPMD,
Harmonia,
The Knickerbockers,
Franke,
Nico,
Camberwell Now,
John Foxx,
John Cale,
Toni Rubio,
Rites of Spring,
Magazine,
Iggy Pop,
The Gladiators,
Scion,
The Buckinghams,
Aloha Tigers,
Clear Light,
Oneida,
Smog,
Minny Pops,
Aswad,
Peter & Gordon,
ABBA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Japan,
Quantec,
Cluster,
Sandy B,
John Lydon,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.