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 Bahrain and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Little Man,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
KRS-One,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
kango's stein massive,
Accadde A,
Loose Ends,
John Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
Spoonie Gee,
Talk Talk,
Livin' Joy,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marc Almond,
Aaron Thompson,
Idris Muhammad,
Q and Not U,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fugazi,
The Electric Prunes,
Negative Approach,
Crash Course in Science,
Barbara Tucker,
New York Dolls,
Nico,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Music Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
The Raincoats,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slackers,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Teasers,
DNA,
Angry Samoans,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Copeland,
Sun City Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
Yazoo,
The Birthday Party,
The Mojo Men,
Theoretical Girls,
David Axelrod,
Soulsonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Silicon Teens,
Steve Hackett,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.