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 Germany and from Copenhagen.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Walker Brothers to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Yellowson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DNA,
Delta 5,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy Collins,
Eurythmics,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Intrusion,
Aswad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Guru Guru,
The Barracudas,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Circle Jerks,
The Golliwogs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
CMW,
Joy Division,
The Dirtbombs,
Thompson Twins,
Sugar Minott,
Kerri Chandler,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ken Boothe,
Funkadelic,
Basic Channel,
Darondo,
Qualms,
Warsaw,
Spoonie Gee,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Piero Umiliani,
The Happenings,
Skaos,
The Cure,
The Red Krayola,
Eric Dolphy,
Saccharine Trust,
Schoolly D,
Black Bananas,
Flash Fearless,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Young Rascals,
Heaven 17,
Suburban Knight,
The Modern Lovers,
The Music Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cluster,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Searchers,
the Sonics,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.