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 the UAE and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Dave Clark Five to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sex Pistols record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Slackers,
DNA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Supertramp,
Scan 7,
Infiniti,
Alphaville,
Yaz,
Deepchord,
The Young Rascals,
Alice Coltrane,
Funkadelic,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Graham Central Station,
Mantronix,
Barbara Tucker,
Crash Course in Science,
the Human League,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy Collins,
Schoolly D,
Nas,
Howard Jones,
Ken Boothe,
Lakeside,
Kevin Saunderson,
Das Ding,
The Toasters,
Derrick May,
The Vogues,
The Martian,
Adolescents,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Amon Düül II,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Royal Trux,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unwound,
Liliput,
Laurel Aitken,
Don Cherry,
Tomorrow,
L. Decosne,
The Cowsills,
Alison Limerick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Terry,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Smoke,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.