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 Belgium and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Roger Hodgson to the techno 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Eli Mardock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
a-ha,
Bobby Womack,
Flipper,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
Steve Hackett,
Japan,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
Sexual Harrassment,
Darondo,
Sam Rivers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
OOIOO,
Amon Düül,
Fugazi,
Joe Smooth,
Depeche Mode,
The Offenders,
Archie Shepp,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Absolute Body Control,
Siglo XX,
Second Layer,
Sonic Youth,
Max Romeo,
Guru Guru,
The Trojans,
Simply Red,
Drexciya,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter and Kerry,
Main Source,
the Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
Index,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Godley & Creme,
Howard Jones,
Scion,
Moby Grape,
Black Pus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marine Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Echospace,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.