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 Poland and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Inner City 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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Royal Trux,
8 Eyed Spy,
Main Source,
Erykah Badu,
Juan Atkins,
MC5,
Suburban Knight,
The Zeros,
Joensuu 1685,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Association,
Chrome,
Massinfluence,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stiv Bators,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dead Boys,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bobbi Humphrey,
June of 44,
Pere Ubu,
Masters at Work,
Sound Behaviour,
Altered Images,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Animal Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Angels of Light,
Joe Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Evens,
Scrapy,
Neu!,
The Modern Lovers,
Spandau Ballet,
Nick Fraelich,
Dennis Brown,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pantaleimon,
cv313,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anakelly,
The Dead C,
Quantec,
Stereo Dub,
Lucky Dragons,
La Düsseldorf,
Hasil Adkins,
The Barracudas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
The Raincoats,
Eve St. Jones,
Pole,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.