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 Croatia and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Johnny Clarke to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blossom Toes,
Easy Going,
Television Personalities,
Charles Mingus,
Blancmange,
The Cure,
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shoche,
E-Dancer,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
World's Most,
Anthony Braxton,
Fugazi,
Freddie Wadling,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Index,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Sheep,
The Tremeloes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Shuggie Otis,
Minny Pops,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tres Demented,
the Slits,
Ultravox,
R.M.O.,
Laurel Aitken,
Todd Rundgren,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
New Order,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric B and Rakim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Juan Atkins,
Rosa Yemen,
Davy DMX,
Radio Birdman,
Donny Hathaway,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blake Baxter,
Zapp,
Organ,
Ultra Naté,
MC5,
cv313,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wire,
Nirvana,
Bronski Beat,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.