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 Congo and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
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,
Inner City,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Johnny Clarke,
The Five Americans,
Black Flag,
Kas Product,
Cal Tjader,
Prince Buster,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Severed Heads,
Accadde A,
Joe Smooth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June of 44,
Graham Central Station,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Osbourne,
Warsaw,
Quantec,
Young Marble Giants,
Newcleus,
Lou Christie,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Grass Roots,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Golliwogs,
the Soft Cell,
Main Source,
Magazine,
The Mojo Men,
Pole,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marcia Griffiths,
Chris & Cosey,
AZ,
The Zeros,
John Holt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Hood,
The Durutti Column,
Sun City Girls,
Marmalade,
The Barracudas,
Masters at Work,
X-101,
Radiohead,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Intrusion,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Hashim,
Flipper,
Lakeside,
Ponytail,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.