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 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin 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 Guru Guru to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Sonny Sharrock,
Motorama,
Lakeside,
The Beau Brummels,
Harmonia,
Au Pairs,
Barrington Levy,
Howard Jones,
Basic Channel,
John Foxx,
MDC,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Sheep,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
Lower 48,
Ituana,
Eurythmics,
Banda Bassotti,
Pussy Galore,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jeru the Damaja,
Blake Baxter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minnie Riperton,
Ludus,
X-101,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiohead,
Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
Donald Byrd,
Wings,
Chrome,
MC5,
Monks,
Crime,
Don Cherry,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Rakim,
The Gap Band,
48th St. Collective,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Anakelly,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
Wire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
The Star Department,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.