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 Panama and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 JFA to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Crime,
Camberwell Now,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lindisfarne,
cv313,
Yazoo,
Ponytail,
The Gladiators,
Ralphi Rosario,
Avey Tare,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cheater Slicks,
Guru Guru,
FM Einheit,
Amon Düül,
kango's stein massive,
Warsaw,
Accadde A,
The Barracudas,
Trumans Water,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Vogues,
The Neon Judgement,
Terrestrial Tones,
Carl Craig,
Dawn Penn,
Cluster,
The Moleskins,
Depeche Mode,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-101,
Alton Ellis,
Ten City,
Gichy Dan,
The Leaves,
Deakin,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
The Blues Magoos,
Eurythmics,
The Electric Prunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Drexciya,
Average White Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Boz Scaggs,
Harry Pussy,
Cal Tjader,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pulsallama,
Pylon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cameo,
Youth Brigade,
Arcadia,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.