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 France and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the electroclash 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Fugazi,
Outsiders,
Sparks,
Terry Callier,
Alton Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bush Tetras,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
B.T. Express,
Ice-T,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
The Neon Judgement,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Suicide,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Shuggie Otis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spandau Ballet,
Brass Construction,
Silicon Teens,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Green,
Lou Christie,
Moebius,
Danielle Patucci,
Johnny Clarke,
Ronnie Foster,
Agent Orange,
Brothers Johnson,
Mad Mike,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music,
8 Eyed Spy,
Slave,
Mark Hollis,
Dawn Penn,
Brand Nubian,
Swans,
T. Rex,
Neil Young,
U.S. Maple,
Hashim,
Excepter,
Quadrant,
Tim Buckley,
The Trojans,
The Misunderstood,
Cal Tjader,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
Don Cherry,
Sam Rivers,
Joey Negro,
Davy DMX,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.