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 Mauritania and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Oblivians to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
This Heat,
Al Stewart,
Grey Daturas,
Laurel Aitken,
Sex Pistols,
Second Layer,
Jeff Mills,
Pharoah Sanders,
Interpol,
Urselle,
D'Angelo,
Panda Bear,
Bush Tetras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Motions,
Donald Byrd,
Angry Samoans,
The Toasters,
Shuggie Otis,
Freddie Wadling,
The Victims,
Faust,
Chris & Cosey,
JFA,
The Smiths,
Spoonie Gee,
Bronski Beat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
The Seeds,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
Tropical Tobacco,
Essential Logic,
Adolescents,
The Wake,
K-Klass,
Kenny Larkin,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
Moby Grape,
Harmonia,
Aloha Tigers,
Slave,
Jawbox,
Maurizio,
Neu!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warsaw,
Sight & Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dead Boys,
Ice-T,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.