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 Syria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 harpsichord 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 Gap Band to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
John Foxx,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Make Up,
Country Teasers,
Yusef Lateef,
Fugazi,
Angry Samoans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Slits,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Radio Birdman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rakim,
Spandau Ballet,
Stereo Dub,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eddi Front,
K-Klass,
Camouflage,
The Remains,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Machine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Age Steppers,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
Von Mondo,
Reuben Wilson,
The Five Americans,
Matthew Halsall,
Rekid,
Fela Kuti,
Blancmange,
Junior Murvin,
Blake Baxter,
Pulsallama,
Aloha Tigers,
Nils Olav,
The Black Dice,
Aaron Thompson,
Visage,
UT,
Goldenarms,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vladislav Delay,
Yazoo,
Susan Cadogan,
Babytalk,
Mantronix,
Arcadia,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Trumans Water,
Zero Boys,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.