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 Mexico 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
The Knickerbockers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Remains,
Ponytail,
Minutemen,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
Hasil Adkins,
Procol Harum,
Minny Pops,
Mars,
Alton Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Spandau Ballet,
Lou Reed,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tubeway Army,
Tim Buckley,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fortunes,
Make Up,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Todd Terry,
The Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Das Ding,
Sarah Menescal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Five Americans,
Toni Rubio,
Crime,
Matthew Bourne,
Ohio Players,
Ronan,
CMW,
Man Parrish,
The Music Machine,
The Fuzztones,
Susan Cadogan,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Green,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pulsallama,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Alice Coltrane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eli Mardock,
Stetsasonic,
The Techniques,
Scientists,
Black Sheep,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Charles Mingus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Toasters,
Mad Mike,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.