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 Tanzania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the snare 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 K-Klass to the rock 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Animal Collective,
Rosa Yemen,
Parry Music,
Barbara Tucker,
Nick Fraelich,
Minny Pops,
AZ,
The Kinks,
The Wake,
Ultravox,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Massinfluence,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moleskins,
Carl Craig,
Oneida,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grey Daturas,
the Association,
Graham Central Station,
Jeff Lynne,
Nico,
Malaria!,
The Birthday Party,
Arcadia,
Minnie Riperton,
Royal Trux,
Country Teasers,
David McCallum,
The Associates,
The Golliwogs,
Idris Muhammad,
Fluxion,
Avey Tare,
Babytalk,
The Grass Roots,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gong,
Freddie Wadling,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Lydon,
MDC,
Schoolly D,
John Holt,
Dennis Brown,
The Monks,
Alice Coltrane,
Accadde A,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
The United States of America,
The Offenders,
Davy DMX,
Yellowson,
Colin Newman,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.