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 Serbia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Pulsallama to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Yaz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Main Source,
X-102,
FM Einheit,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Skatalites,
Rakim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Joy Division,
UT,
The Birthday Party,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Doors,
Gichy Dan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
E-Dancer,
The Five Americans,
B.T. Express,
Amazonics,
Audionom,
Mars,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Buckinghams,
Rod Modell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sight & Sound,
Depeche Mode,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fear,
Guru Guru,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Smooth,
Pere Ubu,
The Evens,
Minor Threat,
Gang Starr,
Reagan Youth,
The Seeds,
David Bowie,
X-101,
Alison Limerick,
Tears for Fears,
Sparks,
Make Up,
Duran Duran,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.