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 Guinea and from Cairo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Minor Threat to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz 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?
Scan 7,
Suicide,
Pet Shop Boys,
Newcleus,
Soft Cell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Cal Tjader,
Rufus Thomas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kerrie Biddell,
Black Bananas,
T.S.O.L.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jandek,
The Tremeloes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delta 5,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lindisfarne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chrome,
Dawn Penn,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Swell Maps,
Warren Ellis,
Marmalade,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young,
Ronan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Altered Images,
Roxette,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Velvet Underground,
Sarah Menescal,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moss Icon,
Little Man,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pagans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fatback Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scientists,
Ultravox,
MC5,
Neu!,
Barry Ungar,
Severed Heads,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bill Wells,
F. McDonald,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Busters,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.