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 Afghanistan and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scratch Acid to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yusef Lateef,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Cecil Taylor,
Joe Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Radio Birdman,
Suburban Knight,
This Heat,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeff Mills,
Subhumans,
AZ,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skriet,
Erasure,
Danielle Patucci,
Iggy Pop,
Motorama,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Can,
Soft Cell,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young,
Nik Kershaw,
Joey Negro,
Scion,
The Last Poets,
Q65,
the Sonics,
Shoche,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sixth Finger,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
Sarah Menescal,
Flipper,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Little Man,
Gong,
Newcleus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
Albert Ayler,
Howard Jones,
Groovy Waters,
Fat Boys,
Lou Christie,
Peter & Gordon,
Wire,
Eden Ahbez,
Sister Nancy,
Flash Fearless,
Gabor Szabo,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.