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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Trumans Water to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
The Gories,
The Techniques,
June Days,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Stooges,
Duran Duran,
Jeff Mills,
Pole,
L. Decosne,
Boredoms,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Monks,
Television Personalities,
The Wake,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Womack,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Selecter,
Second Layer,
Quantec,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wolf Eyes,
Aural Exciters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kenny Larkin,
Amazonics,
Oneida,
the Soft Cell,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Residents,
Camouflage,
Connie Case,
Donald Byrd,
June of 44,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Reuben Wilson,
Yaz,
Saccharine Trust,
Pagans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hardrive,
The Evens,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Kinks,
Blossom Toes,
Chrome,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Magma,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ponytail,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.