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 Madagascar and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 Ten City to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Japan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Womack,
Morten Harket,
Joensuu 1685,
Boredoms,
Donald Byrd,
Monks,
Unrelated Segments,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Star Department,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Symarip,
Chris Corsano,
Danielle Patucci,
John Lydon,
Joey Negro,
The Busters,
Second Layer,
Lower 48,
Terry Callier,
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Happenings,
Black Bananas,
Sister Nancy,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Green,
Arthur Verocai,
The Velvet Underground,
Todd Rundgren,
Swell Maps,
Radio Birdman,
One Last Wish,
Lindisfarne,
Trumans Water,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
James White and The Blacks,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
AZ,
Tommy Roe,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ituana,
Roxette,
Johnny Clarke,
Dave Gahan,
John Cale,
The Golliwogs,
Metal Thangz,
Mark Hollis,
Wolf Eyes,
Skarface,
Barry Ungar,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.