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 Georgia and from Cairo.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
These Immortal Souls,
Television Personalities,
Derrick May,
Wings,
The Selecter,
Mad Mike,
Malaria!,
Glambeats Corp.,
Toni Rubio,
Moebius,
The Angels of Light,
Shoche,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Danielle Patucci,
Connie Case,
Cymande,
Nas,
The Slits,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Depeche Mode,
Pierre Henry,
Fat Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Tears for Fears,
Lindisfarne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Vladislav Delay,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kayak,
Guru Guru,
Warren Ellis,
Index,
Surgeon,
The Dave Clark Five,
FM Einheit,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Oneida,
Traffic Nightmare,
Stiv Bators,
Ice-T,
Nico,
AZ,
Don Cherry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fatback Band,
Pulsallama,
The Five Americans,
The Names,
The Beau Brummels,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.