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 Barbados and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Eric Copeland to the crunk 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Howard Jones,
Moss Icon,
The Residents,
Moby Grape,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Infiniti,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker,
John Cale,
The Remains,
Unrelated Segments,
David Axelrod,
This Heat,
Hardrive,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
T. Rex,
Circle Jerks,
Harmonia,
Thompson Twins,
The Star Department,
Donny Hathaway,
Schoolly D,
Warsaw,
Erasure,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Suicide,
The Invisible,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
London Community Gospel Choir,
Don Cherry,
Minutemen,
The Black Dice,
Motorama,
Junior Murvin,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Traffic Nightmare,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aaron Thompson,
World's Most,
The Trojans,
Black Bananas,
Organ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Anthony Braxton,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fall,
Oblivians,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tres Demented,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.