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 Dominican Republic and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe 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 Howard Jones to the rock 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kas Product,
Terry Callier,
The Stooges,
Gang Starr,
Kerrie Biddell,
Babytalk,
E-Dancer,
Pylon,
Scan 7,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABC,
DJ Style,
Shuggie Otis,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun City Girls,
Organ,
Mad Mike,
Joey Negro,
Aloha Tigers,
Cecil Taylor,
Young Marble Giants,
Bootsy Collins,
Deadbeat,
Bauhaus,
Subhumans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fat Boys,
Agitation Free,
Chris & Cosey,
Soft Cell,
The Real Kids,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
Bill Near,
The Selecter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Bar-Kays,
Howard Jones,
The Wake,
China Crisis,
Dorothy Ashby,
In Retrospect,
Theoretical Girls,
Black Sheep,
The Monks,
Blancmange,
Prince Buster,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joe Finger,
Colin Newman,
Slick Rick,
Zapp,
Radio Birdman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Severed Heads,
The Slits,
Excepter,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.