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 Syria and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ornette Coleman to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gichy Dan,
Johnny Clarke,
Harry Pussy,
Ultra Naté,
Arab on Radar,
Nation of Ulysses,
Young Marble Giants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Slackers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Funkadelic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dual Sessions,
Drexciya,
Infiniti,
Soft Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Steve Hackett,
The American Breed,
Soft Cell,
Faraquet,
Niagra,
Public Enemy,
Unrelated Segments,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ituana,
The Grass Roots,
Cybotron,
48th St. Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Goldenarms,
The Offenders,
Minutemen,
The Tremeloes,
Mars,
Crash Course in Science,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Human League,
The Slits,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
Letta Mbulu,
Robert Hood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Trumans Water,
World's Most,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Franke,
Roxette,
The Cramps,
Harmonia,
Bobby Sherman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.