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 Venezuela 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nas to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
This Heat,
In Retrospect,
Eurythmics,
kango's stein massive,
Moby Grape,
Rites of Spring,
The Gap Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joey Negro,
Kaleidoscope,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grey Daturas,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Names,
Yazoo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Seeds,
Fugazi,
Unwound,
H. Thieme,
MC5,
Derrick May,
Duran Duran,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marine Girls,
Maurizio,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
David McCallum,
OOIOO,
Franke,
David Bowie,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lungfish,
Black Pus,
Mo-Dettes,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Animal Collective,
Laurel Aitken,
The Blues Magoos,
The Knickerbockers,
Das Ding,
Section 25,
Ornette Coleman,
Sugar Minott,
The Slits,
Flash Fearless,
UT,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Coltrane,
Roy Ayers,
La Düsseldorf,
Livin' Joy,
Bill Wells,
Sonic Youth,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.