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 Singapore and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet 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 Gabor Szabo to the punk 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Eden Ahbez,
Von Mondo,
Gong,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Last Poets,
Alison Limerick,
Unrelated Segments,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
Jandek,
Nils Olav,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Seeds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Selecter,
Fad Gadget,
Camouflage,
the Normal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minny Pops,
Lalann,
The Mummies,
The Cowsills,
The Residents,
Model 500,
Second Layer,
Groovy Waters,
Pole,
Supertramp,
X-101,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
Bootsy Collins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Radiohead,
Oblivians,
Bronski Beat,
The Gun Club,
World's Most,
Vainqueur,
Minor Threat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jacob Miller,
Can,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barry Ungar,
Panda Bear,
Con Funk Shun,
Theoretical Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang of Four,
The Birthday Party,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swans,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.