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 Latvia and from London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Kool Moe Dee to the jazz 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Negative Approach,
Flash Fearless,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soft Cell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Howard Jones,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Leonard Cohen,
Pagans,
Colin Newman,
Todd Terry,
Kaleidoscope,
Pussy Galore,
Aaron Thompson,
La Düsseldorf,
Hoover,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
48th St. Collective,
The Gap Band,
The Skatalites,
Parry Music,
Hashim,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
X-Ray Spex,
Sällskapet,
Public Enemy,
The Black Dice,
Quando Quango,
The Cramps,
Anthony Braxton,
One Last Wish,
June Days,
Robert Wyatt,
MC5,
Grauzone,
Rotary Connection,
Marine Girls,
The Names,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Görl,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marvin Gaye,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Prunes,
Sight & Sound,
Joe Finger,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
Black Moon,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker,
Sixth Finger,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Man Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
AZ,
Goldenarms,
Crash Course in Science,
Byron Stingily,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.