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 Luxembourg and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Second Layer to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Gang Starr,
Faraquet,
Yazoo,
Aswad,
Stetsasonic,
Camberwell Now,
Ponytail,
Drive Like Jehu,
The New Christs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fatback Band,
Dark Day,
Motorama,
Black Flag,
The Pretty Things,
Frankie Knuckles,
Davy DMX,
Stereo Dub,
Black Moon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Sherman,
Warsaw,
Eric Copeland,
Sixth Finger,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
KRS-One,
Newcleus,
LL Cool J,
The American Breed,
The Birthday Party,
Groovy Waters,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
Todd Terry,
The Cramps,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Moleskins,
The Stooges,
Monks,
Cecil Taylor,
Animal Collective,
Royal Trux,
B.T. Express,
Sister Nancy,
Suburban Knight,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Aural Exciters,
Sarah Menescal,
Marine Girls,
Funkadelic,
Half Japanese,
48th St. Collective,
Sonic Youth,
Ultra Naté,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.