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 Israel and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fortunes to the punk 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlback,
Guru Guru,
DJ Sneak,
Peter & Gordon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Adolescents,
Pulsallama,
Magma,
the Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Cheater Slicks,
Charles Mingus,
The Leaves,
The Monks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scratch Acid,
Accadde A,
Lower 48,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Durutti Column,
Morten Harket,
T.S.O.L.,
Todd Terry,
The Zeros,
Babytalk,
DJ Style,
Country Teasers,
Robert Görl,
New York Dolls,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Spoonie Gee,
Bluetip,
Wings,
The Buckinghams,
Blancmange,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fugazi,
Scan 7,
The Index,
Al Stewart,
Rotary Connection,
Crime,
Cecil Taylor,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ohio Players,
The Modern Lovers,
The Shadows of Knight,
AZ,
Faust,
Brand Nubian,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mad Mike,
Iggy Pop,
Can,
Thompson Twins,
Parry Music,
Donny Hathaway,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.