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 Guinea and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the punk 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Sarah Menescal,
Reuben Wilson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Vainqueur,
David Axelrod,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Blackbyrds,
Second Layer,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Lydon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Funkadelic,
Minutemen,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Public Enemy,
Negative Approach,
Barbara Tucker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Pus,
Unwound,
Monolake,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Misunderstood,
Wolf Eyes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Dirtbombs,
Roxy Music,
Lalo Schifrin,
Albert Ayler,
Joy Division,
Bobby Byrd,
Scientists,
World's Most,
Sixth Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cybotron,
New Order,
Agitation Free,
Goldenarms,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Average White Band,
Maurizio,
Moby Grape,
Rapeman,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Wells,
Wings,
Eden Ahbez,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Soft Cell,
Con Funk Shun,
Organ,
Mandrill,
Rekid,
Yaz,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.