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 Ireland and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 electroclash 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Flesh Eaters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Connie Case,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Massinfluence,
The Stooges,
Agitation Free,
Pussy Galore,
Gichy Dan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Popol Vuh,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Youth Brigade,
Glenn Branca,
Kenny Larkin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
cv313,
Public Image Ltd.,
T.S.O.L.,
China Crisis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Flamin' Groovies,
R.M.O.,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Names,
Severed Heads,
Spoonie Gee,
New York Dolls,
The Mummies,
Basic Channel,
Franke,
the Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Avey Tare,
The Young Rascals,
Radiopuhelimet,
Erykah Badu,
Don Cherry,
Isaac Hayes,
Outsiders,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed,
The Techniques,
Nas,
DJ Style,
Howard Jones,
The Golliwogs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
UT,
Rakim,
The Real Kids,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Sonics,
D'Angelo,
The Sonics,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hashim,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.