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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rites of Spring to the funk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Electric Prunes,
Michelle Simonal,
Reuben Wilson,
Section 25,
Magazine,
Idris Muhammad,
Sixth Finger,
Electric Prunes,
Yusef Lateef,
The Standells,
Hashim,
Moss Icon,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Wings,
Sam Rivers,
Prince Buster,
Minny Pops,
Negative Approach,
The Mummies,
Max Romeo,
Alton Ellis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Theoretical Girls,
Anakelly,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gang Starr,
UT,
ABBA,
John Foxx,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bootsy Collins,
The Trojans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
10cc,
Schoolly D,
The Divine Comedy,
Los Fastidios,
The Happenings,
KRS-One,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quando Quango,
Sun City Girls,
Charles Mingus,
Crash Course in Science,
Sound Behaviour,
the Association,
Pharoah Sanders,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Circle Jerks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magma,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Techniques,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.