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 Kuwait and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Move to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Lower 48,
The Cramps,
Q and Not U,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Invisible,
Jerry's Kids,
In Retrospect,
Steve Hackett,
the Slits,
Youth Brigade,
The Saints,
Harpers Bizarre,
Idris Muhammad,
The Moleskins,
The J.B.'s,
Y Pants,
Mary Jane Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
Sister Nancy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Angry Samoans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gil Scott Heron,
Alphaville,
The Kinks,
The Cure,
X-101,
Scientists,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
Eric Dolphy,
Yaz,
Monolake,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aswad,
Das Ding,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers,
The Angels of Light,
Scan 7,
Shuggie Otis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Niagra,
Vainqueur,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Smog,
Underground Resistance,
Carl Craig,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Grauzone,
Morten Harket,
Ken Boothe,
Marvin Gaye,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.