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 Liechtenstein and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 In Retrospect to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ice-T,
Yellowson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Blackbyrds,
Smog,
The Human League,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cecil Taylor,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Sandy B,
Chris Corsano,
Visage,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
Jeru the Damaja,
Swell Maps,
Zapp,
Glenn Branca,
Agent Orange,
The Beau Brummels,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
T. Rex,
James White and The Blacks,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bush Tetras,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hashim,
Black Moon,
Aural Exciters,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Aloha Tigers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Depeche Mode,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Darondo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quando Quango,
Funky Four + One,
The Cure,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wasted Youth,
Minor Threat,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.