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 Papua New Guinea and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Davy DMX to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Clarke,
Bluetip,
Zapp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Subhumans,
The Gladiators,
the Fania All-Stars,
Glenn Branca,
Black Bananas,
Metal Thangz,
Letta Mbulu,
Ken Boothe,
Blancmange,
Camouflage,
Outsiders,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Womack,
Cecil Taylor,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DJ Style,
Tim Buckley,
CMW,
Ohio Players,
David McCallum,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
JFA,
Mo-Dettes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Görl,
Excepter,
Roxette,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Motorama,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül II,
Maleditus Sound,
Lakeside,
Godley & Creme,
Y Pants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tropical Tobacco,
kango's stein massive,
Soft Machine,
The Real Kids,
The Kinks,
The Cowsills,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.