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 Lebanon and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ohio Players,
The Raincoats,
Sparks,
Bush Tetras,
Pantaleimon,
Derrick Morgan,
Bronski Beat,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
cv313,
The Evens,
The Walker Brothers,
Outsiders,
Sex Pistols,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television Personalities,
The Doors,
Ossler,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Deadbeat,
Ludus,
Babytalk,
Brand Nubian,
The Detroit Cobras,
Robert Wyatt,
Audionom,
Wings,
Joy Division,
Magma,
Marcia Griffiths,
Severed Heads,
Can,
Colin Newman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Andrew Hill,
Urselle,
The Saints,
The Buckinghams,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
Young Marble Giants,
Glenn Branca,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Slits,
Maurizio,
48th St. Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Danielle Patucci,
The Black Dice,
Crime,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.