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 Haiti and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Harmonia to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Popol Vuh,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Isaac Hayes,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiohead,
The Walker Brothers,
R.M.O.,
The Misunderstood,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Seeds,
The Gories,
Lou Reed,
Kurtis Blow,
Fad Gadget,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mo-Dettes,
Dennis Brown,
Agitation Free,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Funky Four + One,
Loose Ends,
Sandy B,
Simply Red,
Can,
Pulsallama,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brand Nubian,
Junior Murvin,
The Zeros,
the Sonics,
T.S.O.L.,
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oneida,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Swans,
AZ,
Faust,
Eurythmics,
Sällskapet,
Harpers Bizarre,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Magazine,
Arab on Radar,
Bob Dylan,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Velvet Underground,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Soft Cell,
Guru Guru,
Television Personalities,
A Certain Ratio,
Toni Rubio,
The Victims,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.