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 Germany and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Lou Reed 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 Little Man to the dance 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Amon Düül II,
Alice Coltrane,
Echospace,
Boredoms,
The Raincoats,
Urselle,
June of 44,
Spoonie Gee,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Make Up,
The Evens,
In Retrospect,
The Trojans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tres Demented,
Crime,
Hasil Adkins,
Marvin Gaye,
Absolute Body Control,
Bill Wells,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minor Threat,
JFA,
Sonic Youth,
the Bar-Kays,
The Modern Lovers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Groovy Waters,
Fear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
Judy Mowatt,
PIL,
Swell Maps,
Qualms,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Slave,
China Crisis,
Jeff Lynne,
Donald Byrd,
Icehouse,
The Barracudas,
Cabaret Voltaire,
These Immortal Souls,
The Skatalites,
Scrapy,
Radio Birdman,
Public Enemy,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
The Red Krayola,
Fugazi,
Wings,
Chrome,
The Smoke,
The Star Department,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.