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 Botswana and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar 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 Kaleidoscope to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
The Moody Blues,
Peter & Gordon,
Davy DMX,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
This Heat,
Wings,
Smog,
Ossler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neu!,
Pulsallama,
Can,
Charles Mingus,
Funky Four + One,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
Magazine,
Cameo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Techniques,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Amon Düül II,
Sugar Minott,
The Evens,
The Last Poets,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glambeats Corp.,
Silicon Teens,
Fad Gadget,
Radiopuhelimet,
June Days,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Althea and Donna,
Soul II Soul,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pussy Galore,
Jeff Mills,
Crash Course in Science,
Matthew Bourne,
Lalann,
Porter Ricks,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Germs,
the Slits,
Sandy B,
Ponytail,
Agitation Free,
The Knickerbockers,
The Divine Comedy,
Max Romeo,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.