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 Austria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 Max Romeo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Alphaville,
Colin Newman,
The Count Five,
K-Klass,
Tears for Fears,
Parry Music,
Yazoo,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cure,
Unrelated Segments,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scion,
Simply Red,
The Index,
Barry Ungar,
Yusef Lateef,
Howard Jones,
Kas Product,
Bad Manners,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Golliwogs,
Graham Central Station,
Infiniti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Aswad,
Half Japanese,
Make Up,
The Residents,
Black Bananas,
Theoretical Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dark Day,
Goldenarms,
Mo-Dettes,
Radiohead,
8 Eyed Spy,
Trumans Water,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
a-ha,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
MDC,
The Skatalites,
Prince Buster,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultravox,
Janne Schatter,
The Dirtbombs,
Spoonie Gee,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mission of Burma,
Electric Prunes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Section 25,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boredoms,
The Vogues,
Soul II Soul,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.