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 Netherlands and from Taipei.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Alton Ellis to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Urselle,
ABC,
Lindisfarne,
Drexciya,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ice-T,
New York Dolls,
Ituana,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mantronix,
Section 25,
the Sonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joey Negro,
Erykah Badu,
Sixth Finger,
Television,
Whodini,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minutemen,
Masters at Work,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Malaria!,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Moebius,
T. Rex,
Fugazi,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Trojans,
PIL,
Japan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Junior Murvin,
The Fire Engines,
Unrelated Segments,
Moss Icon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Moon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MC5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Procol Harum,
The Durutti Column,
Gichy Dan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Modern Lovers,
Pet Shop Boys,
The American Breed,
In Retrospect,
Intrusion,
Soul II Soul,
Sex Pistols,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.