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 Iran and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kerri Chandler to the grime 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Silicon Teens,
Camberwell Now,
Skarface,
10cc,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kas Product,
The Star Department,
Stetsasonic,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
Rekid,
The Offenders,
Loose Ends,
Japan,
Los Fastidios,
Fluxion,
Joy Division,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lightning Bolt,
FM Einheit,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Zeros,
The Toasters,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barrington Levy,
the Sonics,
Dead Boys,
Lou Reed,
Scion,
Little Man,
The Fortunes,
Pylon,
Sandy B,
Country Teasers,
Ten City,
Public Enemy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Godley & Creme,
Wings,
Kerrie Biddell,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dennis Brown,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Freddie Wadling,
Marvin Gaye,
Scientists,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Michelle Simonal,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Flesh Eaters,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.