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 Dominican Republic and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Leaves to the grime 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker,
Malaria!,
Minutemen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed,
The Cure,
Sugar Minott,
cv313,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Cell,
Eden Ahbez,
Vainqueur,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Second Layer,
Avey Tare,
Index,
Don Cherry,
the Fania All-Stars,
Neu!,
Man Parrish,
Rekid,
Bizarre Inc.,
Juan Atkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flash Fearless,
Youth Brigade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tim Buckley,
Bobby Womack,
Hoover,
The Grass Roots,
Q65,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Animal Collective,
ABBA,
Liliput,
Massinfluence,
Kenny Larkin,
Thompson Twins,
Jeff Lynne,
Eve St. Jones,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Trumans Water,
Ludus,
Marmalade,
China Crisis,
Accadde A,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
Jandek,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Sheep,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.