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 Israel and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 David Bowie 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 Brothers Johnson to the dance 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Gong,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fela Kuti,
Erasure,
Deadbeat,
Cal Tjader,
The Divine Comedy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roger Hodgson,
Quando Quango,
the Sonics,
Althea and Donna,
Zapp,
Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Stooges,
Reagan Youth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Arthur Verocai,
Stiv Bators,
Stetsasonic,
Cybotron,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Q and Not U,
Make Up,
Leonard Cohen,
The Move,
Boz Scaggs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hoover,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Little Man,
Barrington Levy,
John Lydon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Starr,
Basic Channel,
Circle Jerks,
These Immortal Souls,
Alice Coltrane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Slits,
Iggy Pop,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick Morgan,
Au Pairs,
Cameo,
The Busters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Urselle,
World's Most,
Jeff Mills,
Audionom,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.