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 Ghana and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Laurel Aitken to the punk 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Pantaleimon,
La Düsseldorf,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slackers,
Animal Collective,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Erasure,
Duran Duran,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Faraquet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Michelle Simonal,
Gang Green,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Oneida,
The Happenings,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Zapp,
Excepter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flash Fearless,
Althea and Donna,
Maleditus Sound,
Scan 7,
X-102,
Nas,
Amon Düül II,
Eddi Front,
Urselle,
Sarah Menescal,
The Black Dice,
The Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
Scratch Acid,
Swell Maps,
Tropical Tobacco,
Derrick May,
The Fuzztones,
Visage,
Royal Trux,
Rhythm & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
UT,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Görl,
Mo-Dettes,
Reagan Youth,
Negative Approach,
Half Japanese,
Shoche,
Cheater Slicks,
Loose Ends,
Tubeway Army,
Qualms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.