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 Czech Republic 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quando Quango to the electroclash 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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Alarm Clocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Graham Central Station,
The Vogues,
The Barracudas,
Ultra Naté,
Silicon Teens,
Fatback Band,
Jacob Miller,
Pagans,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nils Olav,
B.T. Express,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Toni Rubio,
The Slackers,
Minnie Riperton,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fugazi,
Lindisfarne,
Unwound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Magma,
The Residents,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Smiths,
Thompson Twins,
Duran Duran,
Gang Green,
Qualms,
Joyce Sims,
Ronan,
Nas,
Erykah Badu,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Circle Jerks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
The Slits,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Swans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
AZ,
Cheater Slicks,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Pretty Things,
Scan 7,
Jawbox,
Liliput,
Marvin Gaye,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.