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 Finland and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes 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 The Wake to the electroclash 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Kool Moe Dee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Patti Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Todd Rundgren,
Leonard Cohen,
The Neon Judgement,
Television,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sound,
Inner City,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mandrill,
CMW,
Eli Mardock,
ABC,
Alton Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
Franke,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Grass Roots,
Frankie Knuckles,
Amon Düül II,
Scientists,
cv313,
Silicon Teens,
Country Teasers,
a-ha,
Nils Olav,
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
Erykah Badu,
Rod Modell,
Eden Ahbez,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Goldenarms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pole,
The Golliwogs,
Lower 48,
Amazonics,
Pere Ubu,
The Gun Club,
48th St. Collective,
The Seeds,
X-101,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Jacob Miller,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Skaos,
Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
Carl Craig,
FM Einheit,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Bananas,
Sun Ra,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.