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 Austria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mad Mike to the disco 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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Golliwogs,
Stetsasonic,
Excepter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobby Sherman,
the Human League,
Godley & Creme,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gap Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spandau Ballet,
Q and Not U,
James White and The Blacks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fugs,
Morten Harket,
Nirvana,
Adolescents,
Underground Resistance,
Slave,
Stockholm Monsters,
Colin Newman,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tears for Fears,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crash Course in Science,
Unrelated Segments,
Quantec,
Pantytec,
David McCallum,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker,
Don Cherry,
John Lydon,
John Cale,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roger Hodgson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Los Fastidios,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neu!,
Bill Near,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erykah Badu,
Cameo,
Hasil Adkins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cal Tjader,
Mission of Burma,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Delta 5,
The Names,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.