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 Ethiopia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron 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 Skarface to the punk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Minutemen,
The Fuzztones,
FM Einheit,
Quantec,
Model 500,
Surgeon,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Hood,
Main Source,
Vladislav Delay,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stetsasonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Brick,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Man Parrish,
the Association,
Dark Day,
Rod Modell,
PIL,
Danielle Patucci,
Tim Buckley,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delta 5,
Vainqueur,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Idris Muhammad,
Glenn Branca,
The United States of America,
Groovy Waters,
The Zeros,
Jeff Mills,
DJ Sneak,
Babytalk,
The Wake,
Aloha Tigers,
Aural Exciters,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stiv Bators,
T.S.O.L.,
Mad Mike,
Brand Nubian,
Roxette,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blake Baxter,
Excepter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
This Heat,
Joy Division,
Clear Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
DNA,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.