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 India and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nation of Ulysses to the disco 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Livin' Joy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Susan Cadogan,
Pere Ubu,
Colin Newman,
Magazine,
X-101,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Drexciya,
Con Funk Shun,
The Flesh Eaters,
Roxy Music,
Main Source,
Rakim,
Reagan Youth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rosa Yemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marmalade,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Tremeloes,
The Barracudas,
Minnie Riperton,
The Selecter,
The Mummies,
Boredoms,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Television,
David Bowie,
Bobby Byrd,
Parry Music,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Half Japanese,
Cal Tjader,
Anakelly,
Magma,
The Young Rascals,
Mark Hollis,
Funkadelic,
Alphaville,
John Coltrane,
B.T. Express,
Ultra Naté,
Sparks,
The Zeros,
The Raincoats,
The Cowsills,
Black Moon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ossler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Altered Images,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.