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 Norway and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Jerry's Kids to the techno 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mo-Dettes,
The Vogues,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
Guru Guru,
Y Pants,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Graham Central Station,
Byron Stingily,
Bush Tetras,
Alice Coltrane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lucky Dragons,
Tim Buckley,
Thee Headcoats,
Gerry Rafferty,
Audionom,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Association,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nick Fraelich,
The Count Five,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Womack,
Wings,
Stetsasonic,
Brass Construction,
Anakelly,
Spoonie Gee,
Henry Cow,
Ice-T,
The Trojans,
Massinfluence,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lower 48,
Glenn Branca,
X-102,
Peter and Kerry,
The American Breed,
Roxy Music,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Easy Going,
The Associates,
Amazonics,
Ornette Coleman,
Fugazi,
Lalo Schifrin,
Circle Jerks,
Matthew Halsall,
Alton Ellis,
R.M.O.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dark Day,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.