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 Oman and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
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 theremin 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 Parry Music to the grime 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric Copeland,
John Foxx,
JFA,
The Cramps,
Qualms,
Bootsy Collins,
Ohio Players,
Robert Wyatt,
Reagan Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Lungfish,
Bill Wells,
Severed Heads,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Count Five,
Blake Baxter,
Subhumans,
the Human League,
Rekid,
Visage,
The New Christs,
The Cure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sällskapet,
The Beau Brummels,
Rotary Connection,
Harmonia,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mojo Men,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mantronix,
Oblivians,
Soul II Soul,
Patti Smith,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Royal Trux,
Todd Terry,
Fugazi,
The Victims,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fortunes,
Tres Demented,
The Angels of Light,
The Moleskins,
Chris & Cosey,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker,
Mad Mike,
Black Sheep,
Josef K,
Circle Jerks,
Jandek,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tim Buckley,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.