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 Sri Lanka and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Icehouse to the techno 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Soulsonic Force,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Human League,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Morten Harket,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Goldenarms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Halsall,
The Blackbyrds,
Monolake,
Moebius,
Wasted Youth,
Fear,
Steve Hackett,
Cheater Slicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Babytalk,
Delta 5,
Scientists,
The Pop Group,
Marvin Gaye,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Womack,
The Fortunes,
Essential Logic,
The Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crime,
Letta Mbulu,
Half Japanese,
Gabor Szabo,
Fugazi,
Wally Richardson,
Scion,
The Golliwogs,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
ABC,
China Crisis,
Pantaleimon,
Guru Guru,
Judy Mowatt,
Graham Central Station,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
In Retrospect,
Joe Finger,
The Skatalites,
The Moody Blues,
Amon Düül,
Severed Heads,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.