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 Niger and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Halifax.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Slits to the rock 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Teasers,
Television Personalities,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chrome,
In Retrospect,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
T. Rex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
AZ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rod Modell,
Section 25,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aural Exciters,
Eli Mardock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Simply Red,
The Mojo Men,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ronan,
Davy DMX,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Icehouse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Almond,
MDC,
The Cramps,
The Techniques,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
Excepter,
The Moleskins,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
Peter and Kerry,
Gang of Four,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station,
Black Sheep,
Hardrive,
Hashim,
Fatback Band,
Swans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Visage,
Echospace,
Mission of Burma,
Sun Ra,
Franke,
Alton Ellis,
Thompson Twins,
Accadde A,
The Invisible,
The Velvet Underground,
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.