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 Dominica and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Quando Quango to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Mills,
John Lydon,
Vladislav Delay,
Porter Ricks,
This Heat,
Babytalk,
Letta Mbulu,
Minutemen,
Kurtis Blow,
John Foxx,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Peter and Kerry,
Excepter,
The Happenings,
Hashim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Qualms,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barry Ungar,
Camouflage,
Stereo Dub,
World's Most,
Franke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Radiohead,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hot Snakes,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fortunes,
Tubeway Army,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Loose Ends,
Don Cherry,
Sparks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fela Kuti,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cramps,
The Fire Engines,
a-ha,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scion,
Graham Central Station,
Mad Mike,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gories,
The Dirtbombs,
Alton Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Swell Maps,
Crime,
Moebius,
the Fania All-Stars,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.