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 France and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Hasil Adkins to the rock 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
The New Christs,
The Smoke,
The Names,
The Gories,
Boredoms,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
10cc,
Ronan,
Symarip,
Brick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Adolescents,
Model 500,
Parry Music,
Ice-T,
Panda Bear,
Harry Pussy,
Agent Orange,
Japan,
Dennis Brown,
The Fuzztones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Oblivians,
Sonic Youth,
The Techniques,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aaron Thompson,
Severed Heads,
the Human League,
Kerri Chandler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scion,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
David McCallum,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Janne Schatter,
China Crisis,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
Soulsonic Force,
Surgeon,
David Bowie,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hot Snakes,
Peter and Kerry,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Womack,
Deakin,
Erykah Badu,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hashim,
The Move,
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.