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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Edmonton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Intrusion to the techno 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Yazoo,
Man Parrish,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chris & Cosey,
Fluxion,
Johnny Clarke,
Whodini,
Pantaleimon,
Soul II Soul,
Isaac Hayes,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
the Normal,
10cc,
Maurizio,
Stereo Dub,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Morten Harket,
The Sonics,
Parry Music,
Piero Umiliani,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scientists,
Todd Terry,
Rosa Yemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pere Ubu,
cv313,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Aswad,
Eli Mardock,
Cybotron,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fugazi,
Iggy Pop,
Adolescents,
Lightning Bolt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Schoolly D,
Sam Rivers,
the Germs,
Underground Resistance,
Chrome,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
Pagans,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.