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 Laos and from Bremen.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the snare 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 Ronan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Bluetip,
Bootsy Collins,
Cymande,
ABC,
Audionom,
The Kinks,
Khruangbin,
The Doors,
Gregory Isaacs,
Suicide,
10cc,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
Barclay James Harvest,
AZ,
The Evens,
Derrick Morgan,
Bill Wells,
Pantytec,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
Sister Nancy,
The Red Krayola,
Donald Byrd,
Stiv Bators,
Babytalk,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Connie Case,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lalann,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Grass Roots,
Technova,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Standells,
Minor Threat,
Hot Snakes,
Carl Craig,
MC5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gories,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Shoche,
The Victims,
Country Teasers,
New York Dolls,
Pierre Henry,
Fugazi,
The Gladiators,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hashim,
Jandek,
The Cowsills,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.