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 Belgium and from Spokane.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Audionom to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Colin Newman,
Alison Limerick,
Darondo,
Make Up,
Joey Negro,
Blake Baxter,
Essential Logic,
Donald Byrd,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Near,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joyce Sims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Velvet Underground,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Public Enemy,
Bronski Beat,
T.S.O.L.,
Eve St. Jones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Faraquet,
New Age Steppers,
Scan 7,
Pere Ubu,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Grass Roots,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Harry Pussy,
Sex Pistols,
the Germs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Bar-Kays,
Alton Ellis,
The Fuzztones,
Massinfluence,
The Gladiators,
Echospace,
Fluxion,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flipper,
Technova,
Aswad,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fortunes,
Minnie Riperton,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Carl Craig,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Loose Ends,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Infiniti,
Gichy Dan,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.