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 Niger and from Houston.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Yaz to the dance 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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Dave Gahan,
Yellowson,
Maleditus Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
Monks,
Mantronix,
Johnny Clarke,
Skarface,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tommy Roe,
Idris Muhammad,
Warsaw,
Mr. Review,
Flipper,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Green,
Suburban Knight,
The Blackbyrds,
The Young Rascals,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
U.S. Maple,
Faraquet,
Rakim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vladislav Delay,
Index,
New York Dolls,
Cheater Slicks,
Pantaleimon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Oneida,
Babytalk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
Faust,
Bad Manners,
Das Ding,
The Trojans,
The Dirtbombs,
Buzzcocks,
Technova,
Ultra Naté,
The Leaves,
Sister Nancy,
Warren Ellis,
Hoover,
JFA,
Severed Heads,
Eric Dolphy,
Reagan Youth,
Black Pus,
Erykah Badu,
The Index,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kevin Saunderson,
A Certain Ratio,
Moebius,
Los Fastidios,
Lindisfarne,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.