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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the jazz 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Aural Exciters,
Stiv Bators,
Television Personalities,
Danielle Patucci,
The Remains,
Jerry's Kids,
Bob Dylan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Offenders,
Can,
Black Flag,
Gang Green,
Dennis Brown,
Erykah Badu,
Shoche,
Sex Pistols,
Youth Brigade,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pere Ubu,
Crime,
Slave,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nils Olav,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eden Ahbez,
Wally Richardson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radio Birdman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Supertramp,
Moby Grape,
Yusef Lateef,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Sheep,
UT,
Deepchord,
Max Romeo,
Boz Scaggs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mo-Dettes,
H. Thieme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Angry Samoans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lakeside,
Tears for Fears,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
LL Cool J,
The Monks,
The Grass Roots,
David McCallum,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.