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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 This Heat to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Remains. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Black Bananas,
Pantaleimon,
Vladislav Delay,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
Mad Mike,
Toni Rubio,
Juan Atkins,
Roxy Music,
The Pretty Things,
Moebius,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Enemy,
Marc Almond,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Byrd,
Pulsallama,
Man Parrish,
Black Sheep,
Suicide,
Gang of Four,
Easy Going,
Leonard Cohen,
kango's stein massive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rapeman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultravox,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Junior Murvin,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Sherman,
The Pop Group,
The Fall,
Chris Corsano,
Magma,
X-102,
Crooked Eye,
Sun City Girls,
Severed Heads,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlback,
Flash Fearless,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Five Americans,
Flipper,
H. Thieme,
Camouflage,
MC5,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
Heaven 17,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rekid,
PIL,
Robert Hood,
The Martian,
Faraquet,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.