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 Italy and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Jerry's Kids to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Model 500,
Moby Grape,
Q and Not U,
Darondo,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television Personalities,
Lyres,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Saints,
Funky Four + One,
Brick,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Alarm Clocks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quadrant,
The J.B.'s,
Lindisfarne,
Suicide,
Quantec,
Kerri Chandler,
Nation of Ulysses,
Freddie Wadling,
The Remains,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
Slave,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
New York Dolls,
Yellowson,
The Cowsills,
Patti Smith,
Marvin Gaye,
Agitation Free,
Janne Schatter,
The Birthday Party,
Steve Hackett,
Pagans,
The Techniques,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Happenings,
Scan 7,
Jacques Brel,
Glenn Branca,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultravox,
Lungfish,
Mark Hollis,
Cluster,
Faust,
The Associates,
Black Moon,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.