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 Serbia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Unwound to the electroclash 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Schoolly D,
Scan 7,
Pylon,
Mantronix,
Youth Brigade,
The Angels of Light,
Fugazi,
Wally Richardson,
Angry Samoans,
Quantec,
Sight & Sound,
Trumans Water,
Liliput,
The Divine Comedy,
In Retrospect,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Bananas,
Jandek,
The Fugs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chrome,
Clear Light,
Barry Ungar,
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
Interpol,
The New Christs,
Peter & Gordon,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Porter Ricks,
Albert Ayler,
Lalann,
The Gladiators,
Excepter,
Can,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
These Immortal Souls,
The Walker Brothers,
Suicide,
The Toasters,
Tears for Fears,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Unrelated Segments,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Animal Collective,
E-Dancer,
The Busters,
Deadbeat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Subhumans,
8 Eyed Spy,
L. Decosne,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
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.