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 Manila.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Minor Threat to the rock 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Avey Tare,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marc Almond,
Bobby Womack,
Second Layer,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Tom Boy,
Lower 48,
Bootsy Collins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Man Eating Sloth,
Little Man,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fear,
Charles Mingus,
Nas,
China Crisis,
Rosa Yemen,
Howard Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Can,
The Sonics,
The Golliwogs,
Lalann,
EPMD,
Panda Bear,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
B.T. Express,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David Axelrod,
Warren Ellis,
The Selecter,
D'Angelo,
Michelle Simonal,
Spoonie Gee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Soulsonic Force,
Harmonia,
The Doobie Brothers,
Metal Thangz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Guru Guru,
Bill Wells,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crispy Ambulance,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gang of Four,
Donny Hathaway,
Throbbing Gristle,
Radiohead,
Erasure,
Amon Düül,
Yusef Lateef,
48th St. Collective,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.