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 Benin and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Flash Fearless to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moss Icon,
The Golliwogs,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlback,
David Bowie,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Flag,
Suicide,
Rufus Thomas,
Livin' Joy,
Bill Wells,
Joey Negro,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Schoolly D,
DJ Style,
The New Christs,
Janne Schatter,
Newcleus,
Minny Pops,
Goldenarms,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
Quadrant,
Trumans Water,
Hasil Adkins,
The Zeros,
The Pretty Things,
Arab on Radar,
The Alarm Clocks,
Darondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marshall Jefferson,
Deakin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bob Dylan,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
Dual Sessions,
Sun City Girls,
Roger Hodgson,
John Holt,
Anthony Braxton,
Al Stewart,
The Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
LL Cool J,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
EPMD,
Subhumans,
Brand Nubian,
Neil Young,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.