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 Slovenia and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Lightning Bolt to the rock 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tomorrow,
Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Agitation Free,
The Music Machine,
The Selecter,
kango's stein massive,
The Associates,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
U.S. Maple,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
Nas,
The Cowsills,
Khruangbin,
Flash Fearless,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Patti Smith,
cv313,
Das Ding,
The Smoke,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Clarke,
Matthew Halsall,
Livin' Joy,
The Vogues,
Popol Vuh,
Section 25,
Blake Baxter,
The Names,
Pagans,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Happenings,
Boz Scaggs,
Sparks,
Dave Gahan,
The Litter,
David Bowie,
Mo-Dettes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Wake,
FM Einheit,
Drexciya,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rod Modell,
Glenn Branca,
Aaron Thompson,
In Retrospect,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jandek,
Agent Orange,
a-ha,
The Trojans,
CMW,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.