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 Switzerland and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lou Reed to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
The Barracudas,
Fat Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Janne Schatter,
Peter & Gordon,
The Count Five,
the Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Brand Nubian,
Freddie Wadling,
Isaac Hayes,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Moon,
Unrelated Segments,
Rosa Yemen,
Young Marble Giants,
Hot Snakes,
Con Funk Shun,
Roxy Music,
Michelle Simonal,
World's Most,
The Gun Club,
These Immortal Souls,
Warren Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Crispy Ambulance,
Make Up,
Fugazi,
Absolute Body Control,
Brothers Johnson,
Sex Pistols,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
The Modern Lovers,
Steve Hackett,
X-102,
Jeff Mills,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Sheep,
Franke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Harry Pussy,
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dead C,
AZ,
Mad Mike,
Erasure,
Goldenarms,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Residents,
The Pretty Things,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Wasted Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
James White and The Blacks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Junior Murvin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.