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 Lebanon and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dennis Brown to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Index,
Cymande,
Jawbox,
Wolf Eyes,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
The Fall,
Zero Boys,
The Buckinghams,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nirvana,
Mark Hollis,
48th St. Collective,
Freddie Wadling,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Crooked Eye,
Duran Duran,
Soul II Soul,
Can,
The Moleskins,
Pantytec,
The Gladiators,
Neu!,
Ituana,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Golliwogs,
Matthew Halsall,
the Human League,
Donny Hathaway,
Wally Richardson,
Kenny Larkin,
Minor Threat,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Remains,
Delta 5,
The Searchers,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
Chrome,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultra Naté,
EPMD,
Aswad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Peter and Kerry,
Aloha Tigers,
Yusef Lateef,
Susan Cadogan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Khruangbin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vainqueur,
U.S. Maple,
DJ Sneak,
Erasure,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.