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 Azerbaijan and from Philadelphia.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cybotron to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
Unrelated Segments,
Liliput,
The Cowsills,
Jeff Lynne,
Bad Manners,
Piero Umiliani,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantytec,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ponytail,
The Slits,
The Gap Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Crooked Eye,
Outsiders,
Procol Harum,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nico,
The Black Dice,
The Fugs,
the Germs,
B.T. Express,
Black Moon,
Moebius,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Godley & Creme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flash Fearless,
The Vogues,
CMW,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
X-101,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ronan,
Ituana,
Ken Boothe,
The Monochrome Set,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Supertramp,
Make Up,
Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Popol Vuh,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eric Copeland,
Khruangbin,
the Sonics,
Franke,
Agitation Free,
The Beau Brummels,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Siglo XX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.