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 Mexico and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Cal Tjader to the techno 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Minutemen,
Danielle Patucci,
Skarface,
A Flock of Seagulls,
One Last Wish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Second Layer,
Hoover,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kenny Larkin,
Scrapy,
Tres Demented,
The Motions,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
The Smiths,
Maurizio,
Faust,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fatback Band,
Hot Snakes,
Joey Negro,
Kayak,
Jandek,
Robert Wyatt,
Trumans Water,
Lungfish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rod Modell,
U.S. Maple,
AZ,
Piero Umiliani,
The Last Poets,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Surgeon,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Görl,
Maleditus Sound,
Audionom,
Matthew Halsall,
John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rapeman,
Don Cherry,
D'Angelo,
Sex Pistols,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
The Offenders,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
The Five Americans,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.