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 China and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Idris Muhammad to the grunge 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Pretty Things,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Sonics,
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
The Flesh Eaters,
Darondo,
Funkadelic,
Gong,
Kurtis Blow,
Judy Mowatt,
Brick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rod Modell,
Swans,
DJ Style,
Hot Snakes,
Black Flag,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Urselle,
Anakelly,
The Electric Prunes,
The Human League,
Bill Near,
Nas,
The Buckinghams,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eli Mardock,
Trumans Water,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Doors,
Deakin,
Sarah Menescal,
Donny Hathaway,
Iggy Pop,
OOIOO,
The Move,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
The Kinks,
Marine Girls,
Junior Murvin,
Smog,
Rotary Connection,
Toni Rubio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lou Christie,
Soft Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cal Tjader,
The Velvet Underground,
Mr. Review,
EPMD,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Suburban Knight,
Scientists,
Soul Sonic Force,
Guru Guru,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.