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 Senegal and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 Amazonics to the electroclash 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Blake Baxter,
The Motions,
The Angels of Light,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eddi Front,
Pantaleimon,
Niagra,
Zero Boys,
Metal Thangz,
The Gap Band,
Bauhaus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pierre Henry,
Brothers Johnson,
Juan Atkins,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jimmy McGriff,
PIL,
Moebius,
Royal Trux,
OOIOO,
Warren Ellis,
Pagans,
Pantytec,
Howard Jones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jacob Miller,
Index,
Black Sheep,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerri Chandler,
In Retrospect,
U.S. Maple,
London Community Gospel Choir,
These Immortal Souls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Radiohead,
Brand Nubian,
The Doors,
Gang Starr,
Barry Ungar,
Black Pus,
Lou Christie,
The Martian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rekid,
Aural Exciters,
Average White Band,
China Crisis,
The Selecter,
Bronski Beat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Raincoats,
Ultra Naté,
Dual Sessions,
Aaron Thompson,
Mark Hollis,
X-Ray Spex,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.