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 Italy and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Fugazi 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Blancmange,
Andrew Hill,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Albert Ayler,
Kas Product,
Pantytec,
Bizarre Inc.,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gladiators,
The Stooges,
Quadrant,
Pylon,
Dual Sessions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Idris Muhammad,
Barry Ungar,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Residents,
The Fall,
Roger Hodgson,
Marc Almond,
K-Klass,
The Seeds,
Lalann,
Monks,
The Move,
Aloha Tigers,
Easy Going,
Soulsonic Force,
Wire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pole,
Icehouse,
Maleditus Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Adolescents,
Robert Görl,
Sixth Finger,
Bang On A Can,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Von Mondo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faraquet,
kango's stein massive,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Motorama,
Skriet,
KRS-One,
CMW,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soul II Soul,
Black Sheep,
Bobby Sherman,
Trumans Water,
Schoolly D,
Nico,
Silicon Teens,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.