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 Guatemala and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Sister Nancy,
Wolf Eyes,
Dennis Brown,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dark Day,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soft Machine,
Godley & Creme,
Sight & Sound,
OOIOO,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sex Pistols,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Parry Music,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skarface,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
The Motions,
The Cowsills,
Bill Near,
Jimmy McGriff,
Leonard Cohen,
Panda Bear,
The Alarm Clocks,
R.M.O.,
Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Cluster,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Star Department,
PIL,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sällskapet,
Nico,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Public Enemy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Whodini,
LL Cool J,
Absolute Body Control,
Davy DMX,
Ken Boothe,
The Sound,
Icehouse,
the Swans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
AZ,
the Normal,
Scientists,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Trumans Water,
Amon Düül II,
Q and Not U,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.