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 Jordan and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator 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 KRS-One to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Liliput,
Talk Talk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rod Modell,
La Düsseldorf,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
The Knickerbockers,
Bobby Byrd,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Association,
New Age Steppers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Erykah Badu,
The Tremeloes,
The Wake,
Schoolly D,
Desert Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
T.S.O.L.,
Main Source,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Minutemen,
X-102,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fire Engines,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Happenings,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marvin Gaye,
The Fuzztones,
Letta Mbulu,
Underground Resistance,
H. Thieme,
Wire,
Kas Product,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
Q65,
John Holt,
Das Ding,
Pere Ubu,
Iggy Pop,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lee Hazlewood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Stooges,
Rakim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bronski Beat,
Nas,
Country Teasers,
Oneida,
Loose Ends,
Anakelly,
Accadde A,
Donny Hathaway,
Drive Like Jehu,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.