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 Equatorial Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the electroclash 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Ludus,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donald Byrd,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Moebius,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
Rufus Thomas,
Tubeway Army,
John Cale,
kango's stein massive,
Charles Mingus,
Alton Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fatback Band,
the Soft Cell,
Japan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Goldenarms,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
The Velvet Underground,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Chris & Cosey,
Cluster,
Mo-Dettes,
Minutemen,
Royal Trux,
Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barbara Tucker,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mark Hollis,
Robert Görl,
Pole,
Junior Murvin,
Average White Band,
Altered Images,
Eddi Front,
Gong,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kerri Chandler,
The Star Department,
Shoche,
Oblivians,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Motions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Byrd,
Crime,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nico,
Saccharine Trust,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.