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 Barbados 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Alison Limerick,
The Standells,
Kurtis Blow,
Bush Tetras,
Isaac Hayes,
Lower 48,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Red Krayola,
Ossler,
The Evens,
Tom Boy,
Average White Band,
MC5,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Royal Trux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Gories,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Barracudas,
Patti Smith,
Sex Pistols,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gichy Dan,
Duran Duran,
Stereo Dub,
Scratch Acid,
The Residents,
The Offenders,
Siglo XX,
Niagra,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Lydon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pantaleimon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
Bill Wells,
Warren Ellis,
Slave,
Public Enemy,
Lyres,
Fad Gadget,
Make Up,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Minny Pops,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Human League,
Alton Ellis,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.