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 Estonia and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Danielle Patucci to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Qualms,
Ten City,
The Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
Rites of Spring,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scan 7,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Subhumans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mission of Burma,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
Radiopuhelimet,
La Düsseldorf,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Desert Stars,
the Normal,
Mark Hollis,
Maleditus Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Underground Resistance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
10cc,
The Five Americans,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Josef K,
The Moleskins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Derrick May,
The Stooges,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eve St. Jones,
Brick,
Rapeman,
The Slackers,
The Fall,
Delon & Dalcan,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fuzztones,
Bootsy Collins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sex Pistols,
Lightning Bolt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barrington Levy,
Donny Hathaway,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Judy Mowatt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.