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 China and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer 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 Last Poets to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
8 Eyed Spy,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bizarre Inc.,
UT,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yellowson,
Thee Headcoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T. Rex,
The Durutti Column,
Negative Approach,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Modern Lovers,
Fad Gadget,
Roxy Music,
Shoche,
The Slits,
Jandek,
Alison Limerick,
Connie Case,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scratch Acid,
Shuggie Otis,
Bill Near,
Stetsasonic,
New York Dolls,
Lightning Bolt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roger Hodgson,
James White and The Blacks,
The Victims,
The Divine Comedy,
Skaos,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gabor Szabo,
Ken Boothe,
Yazoo,
48th St. Collective,
the Germs,
Ronan,
Amazonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17,
Young Marble Giants,
The Busters,
John Foxx,
Archie Shepp,
Gichy Dan,
Scientists,
EPMD,
Trumans Water,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sparks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Al Stewart,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.