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 Zimbabwe and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Infiniti to the disco 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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Panda Bear,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pylon,
Wasted Youth,
Scrapy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Quadrant,
The Searchers,
Joey Negro,
Boredoms,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Prince Buster,
Nirvana,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soft Machine,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blues Magoos,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skarface,
Ludus,
Section 25,
The Fortunes,
Moss Icon,
Pulsallama,
The Pretty Things,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
CMW,
Jacques Brel,
The Real Kids,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
In Retrospect,
Skaos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Patti Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare,
Blossom Toes,
Marc Almond,
Warsaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Country Teasers,
Agent Orange,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
kango's stein massive,
the Sonics,
Bobby Womack,
Smog,
Donald Byrd,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rotary Connection,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.