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 Turkey and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Eric Copeland to the rap 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 '70s 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 Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Second Layer,
Girls At Our Best!,
New Order,
Organ,
Rakim,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joensuu 1685,
Saccharine Trust,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Smog,
The Sound,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Osbourne,
FM Einheit,
Alison Limerick,
The Vogues,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stiv Bators,
The Mummies,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Reed,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vainqueur,
Gerry Rafferty,
Masters at Work,
Thee Headcoats,
Whodini,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Christie,
Nirvana,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott Heron,
Heaven 17,
Agitation Free,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Fad Gadget,
The Move,
Mark Hollis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultravox,
Mr. Review,
The Beau Brummels,
The Busters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gabor Szabo,
Mantronix,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Blossom Toes,
New Age Steppers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Groovy Waters,
Gang of Four,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ludus,
Sonic Youth,
Marvin Gaye,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hot Snakes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.