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 Grenada and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Con Funk Shun to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
Rotary Connection,
8 Eyed Spy,
James White and The Blacks,
Model 500,
Jandek,
Chrome,
Jacques Brel,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Von Mondo,
Nick Fraelich,
Severed Heads,
the Sonics,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
a-ha,
Sonic Youth,
Fear,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Das Ding,
New Order,
Shuggie Otis,
One Last Wish,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-Ray Spex,
Lower 48,
Pagans,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pylon,
cv313,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deepchord,
Bauhaus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Invisible,
Monks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Judy Mowatt,
Minutemen,
Brothers Johnson,
Scion,
Sparks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
Dark Day,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
Liliput,
the Normal,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.