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 Philippines and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jawbox to the rock 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fat Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Godley & Creme,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
Echospace,
Zapp,
Television Personalities,
Deakin,
The Walker Brothers,
Jawbox,
Pulsallama,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
JFA,
Kayak,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
the Bar-Kays,
Blake Baxter,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Sonics,
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hot Snakes,
Roxy Music,
Faust,
Organ,
Q and Not U,
Yusef Lateef,
Joy Division,
Mr. Review,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ice-T,
Graham Central Station,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fugs,
Alphaville,
the Normal,
Soulsonic Force,
Surgeon,
Tres Demented,
Arthur Verocai,
Eyeless In Gaza,
L. Decosne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
T.S.O.L.,
Dark Day,
Altered Images,
Roy Ayers,
Rhythm & Sound,
X-101,
Rakim,
Television,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Banda Bassotti,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.