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 Maldives and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alphaville to the rap 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Quando Quango,
Ponytail,
Procol Harum,
Gang Green,
Nirvana,
Rakim,
Freddie Wadling,
Q65,
Jacob Miller,
The Divine Comedy,
Goldenarms,
Siglo XX,
Brass Construction,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Spandau Ballet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soft Machine,
Theoretical Girls,
Basic Channel,
Yusef Lateef,
Mr. Review,
Soul II Soul,
The Standells,
Isaac Hayes,
Babytalk,
The Black Dice,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mojo Men,
Michelle Simonal,
Fela Kuti,
U.S. Maple,
Piero Umiliani,
Visage,
Monks,
Young Marble Giants,
the Human League,
the Association,
Sister Nancy,
Tim Buckley,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
Deepchord,
Leonard Cohen,
The New Christs,
Lower 48,
Hasil Adkins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Country Teasers,
The Walker Brothers,
Surgeon,
Infiniti,
Fugazi,
The Mummies,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fad Gadget,
Faust,
The Gun Club,
The Kinks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.