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 Sweden and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Ossler,
Gil Scott Heron,
Black Sheep,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MDC,
Thompson Twins,
Radiohead,
Grey Daturas,
Albert Ayler,
The Skatalites,
Bang On A Can,
PIL,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gun Club,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sparks,
Q and Not U,
The Invisible,
Tres Demented,
Aloha Tigers,
Yazoo,
Kerri Chandler,
Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Amon Düül II,
The Real Kids,
cv313,
Lalo Schifrin,
Circle Jerks,
Qualms,
Eric B and Rakim,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe,
Reagan Youth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
China Crisis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Smog,
Flash Fearless,
Lower 48,
Kas Product,
The Star Department,
Cluster,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Byrd,
Half Japanese,
Joe Finger,
Wire,
Mark Hollis,
Popol Vuh,
Bob Dylan,
the Human League,
Radio Birdman,
The Raincoats,
Sugar Minott,
Underground Resistance,
Sällskapet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.