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 New Zealand and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Absolute Body Control to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rites of Spring,
Quando Quango,
The Invisible,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ken Boothe,
The Monks,
This Heat,
Audionom,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harpers Bizarre,
OOIOO,
The Durutti Column,
Supertramp,
Desert Stars,
The Wake,
Donald Byrd,
Metal Thangz,
Newcleus,
The Remains,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hasil Adkins,
EPMD,
Mark Hollis,
Scott Walker,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
Zero Boys,
China Crisis,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Near,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Monochrome Set,
Ten City,
Scion,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chris Corsano,
Steve Hackett,
Y Pants,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Hill,
Silicon Teens,
Scrapy,
David McCallum,
Sight & Sound,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
Idris Muhammad,
Lyres,
Sixth Finger,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Birthday Party,
Hashim,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.