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 Sudan and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Ice-T to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moleskins,
Bluetip,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Tremeloes,
Little Man,
kango's stein massive,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jimmy McGriff,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Amon Düül,
Pussy Galore,
Yaz,
DNA,
The Pretty Things,
Boredoms,
Michelle Simonal,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Country Teasers,
Interpol,
Cymande,
Adolescents,
Desert Stars,
The Evens,
Jeff Mills,
Maleditus Sound,
Pulsallama,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Groovy Waters,
The Happenings,
Q65,
Delta 5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mad Mike,
Toni Rubio,
Negative Approach,
Skriet,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Golliwogs,
Accadde A,
New York Dolls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gap Band,
Minor Threat,
Robert Görl,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Prince Buster,
10cc,
Sparks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed,
Nico,
Chris Corsano,
David Bowie,
Rekid,
Joe Finger,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.