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 Kosovo and from Shanghai.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scrapy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
The Fugs,
The Last Poets,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
Brothers Johnson,
Public Enemy,
The Zeros,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arcadia,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Half Japanese,
Cluster,
Sällskapet,
Black Sheep,
DNA,
Trumans Water,
FM Einheit,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
Funkadelic,
Von Mondo,
Cal Tjader,
Byron Stingily,
Mark Hollis,
Country Teasers,
Rod Modell,
Hoover,
Grey Daturas,
In Retrospect,
Subhumans,
Godley & Creme,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Gories,
The Names,
Royal Trux,
The Smiths,
Panda Bear,
Supertramp,
Ponytail,
Rites of Spring,
Marc Almond,
The Blues Magoos,
Max Romeo,
The Human League,
Aswad,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Khruangbin,
Nas,
Joyce Sims,
Fugazi,
Roger Hodgson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Spoonie Gee,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.