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 Angola and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron 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 Iggy Pop to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxy Music,
Essential Logic,
Faust,
Pole,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
Rakim,
a-ha,
Pantaleimon,
KRS-One,
Masters at Work,
Tim Buckley,
Warren Ellis,
Roxette,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gladiators,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unwound,
Slick Rick,
Massinfluence,
Symarip,
Black Sheep,
the Swans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
The Saints,
Dead Boys,
Pylon,
Altered Images,
Wolf Eyes,
Anakelly,
Black Flag,
Intrusion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Donald Byrd,
Loose Ends,
The Red Krayola,
Arab on Radar,
Circle Jerks,
Ituana,
Youth Brigade,
Maleditus Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
K-Klass,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Average White Band,
The New Christs,
Mission of Burma,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Teasers,
David McCallum,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cramps,
Japan,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.