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 Switzerland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the electroclash 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
The Count Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mr. Review,
Althea and Donna,
Absolute Body Control,
Shuggie Otis,
Graham Central Station,
The Fall,
Isaac Hayes,
Ronan,
Camouflage,
Tommy Roe,
K-Klass,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
The Gun Club,
Roxy Music,
The Remains,
Visage,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marmalade,
The Last Poets,
Bizarre Inc.,
Max Romeo,
Gang Starr,
Eric Dolphy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Surgeon,
Livin' Joy,
Stetsasonic,
Bill Wells,
Public Enemy,
F. McDonald,
Agent Orange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warsaw,
Wally Richardson,
Michelle Simonal,
Television,
Scott Walker,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Green,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Kerri Chandler,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Moon,
The Zeros,
Piero Umiliani,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Busters,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Icehouse,
Average White Band,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.