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 Montenegro and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Scott Walker 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Ten City,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roxy Music,
Kenny Larkin,
MC5,
Lower 48,
The Real Kids,
Minor Threat,
John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Young Marble Giants,
X-102,
UT,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Flag,
Minutemen,
Darondo,
PIL,
Tears for Fears,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Victims,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rakim,
The Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jawbox,
Eric Dolphy,
Aural Exciters,
Yaz,
Sällskapet,
Funkadelic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dennis Brown,
Urselle,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Chris & Cosey,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tom Boy,
The Music Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
H. Thieme,
Qualms,
The Gories,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cowsills,
Bill Wells,
Cal Tjader,
Goldenarms,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.