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 Malawi and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 David Bowie 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 Arab on Radar to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
The Blues Magoos,
Althea and Donna,
Ultra Naté,
The Raincoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
Whodini,
Yazoo,
Black Flag,
Glenn Branca,
Ultravox,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Wells,
The Smiths,
Alphaville,
Yusef Lateef,
The Remains,
Sex Pistols,
Ludus,
Scan 7,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Radiohead,
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Arcadia,
The Grass Roots,
Bluetip,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Happenings,
One Last Wish,
The Litter,
The Barracudas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brand Nubian,
New Order,
the Human League,
The Techniques,
Massinfluence,
Godley & Creme,
Barbara Tucker,
Tubeway Army,
Qualms,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lyres,
Marine Girls,
Monolake,
Sam Rivers,
The Last Poets,
Popol Vuh,
The Modern Lovers,
Jacques Brel,
Echospace,
the Germs,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.