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 Guyana and from Philadelphia.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Soulsonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Holt,
Archie Shepp,
Subhumans,
Crime,
Davy DMX,
Fear,
Gastr Del Sol,
Donny Hathaway,
Byron Stingily,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bluetip,
The Fortunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alison Limerick,
Von Mondo,
Lyres,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kayak,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Amazonics,
One Last Wish,
Stereo Dub,
Gichy Dan,
Magma,
Flash Fearless,
Pantytec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
T. Rex,
Cymande,
Sunsets and Hearts,
June Days,
Model 500,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fela Kuti,
Drexciya,
The Tremeloes,
New Age Steppers,
Severed Heads,
Thompson Twins,
Crispian St. Peters,
Janne Schatter,
Albert Ayler,
Michelle Simonal,
The Motions,
The American Breed,
The Fire Engines,
Radio Birdman,
The Golliwogs,
Circle Jerks,
Grauzone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crooked Eye,
Half Japanese,
Nils Olav,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.