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 Kuwait and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camouflage to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Crash Course in Science,
Unwound,
Thee Headcoats,
Brand Nubian,
Lungfish,
Soft Cell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skaos,
Infiniti,
The Electric Prunes,
Eli Mardock,
The Cowsills,
Adolescents,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobby Womack,
One Last Wish,
John Lydon,
Rod Modell,
Arthur Verocai,
Pantaleimon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Victims,
Maurizio,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Average White Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Supertramp,
Los Fastidios,
Roxy Music,
The Associates,
DJ Style,
Ossler,
Heaven 17,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Black Sheep,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lindisfarne,
The Fire Engines,
Slave,
Gang of Four,
Public Enemy,
Cymande,
Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
China Crisis,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rapeman,
Dead Boys,
The Techniques,
R.M.O.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.