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 Chile and from Columbus.
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 Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rosa Yemen to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Barrington Levy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Prunes,
Sparks,
Sonic Youth,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
Public Enemy,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
T. Rex,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Womack,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
The Grass Roots,
Neu!,
Tropical Tobacco,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Toasters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
China Crisis,
Ronan,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fire Engines,
Marcia Griffiths,
Darondo,
The Smoke,
Can,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sex Pistols,
Altered Images,
Ituana,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mars,
Marc Almond,
The Beau Brummels,
New Age Steppers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Motions,
Mark Hollis,
Jeff Mills,
Carl Craig,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Flesh Eaters,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
Interpol,
Sun Ra,
Adolescents,
Boz Scaggs,
48th St. Collective,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.