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 Tunisia and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Alphaville to the jazz 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Blancmange,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Davy DMX,
Yaz,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Connie Case,
Unwound,
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Drexciya,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
cv313,
Lucky Dragons,
Piero Umiliani,
Youth Brigade,
Steve Hackett,
Bizarre Inc.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soul II Soul,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cowsills,
The Electric Prunes,
Gichy Dan,
E-Dancer,
Main Source,
Althea and Donna,
Godley & Creme,
Scan 7,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Kas Product,
Mission of Burma,
Brand Nubian,
This Heat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
Das Ding,
The Knickerbockers,
James White and The Blacks,
Aloha Tigers,
Bush Tetras,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bill Near,
Grauzone,
Fad Gadget,
The Angels of Light,
FM Einheit,
Yellowson,
June Days,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Roxette,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.