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 Cameroon and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Idris Muhammad to the techno 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
R.M.O.,
Duran Duran,
Underground Resistance,
Juan Atkins,
Sällskapet,
OOIOO,
Gabor Szabo,
Peter & Gordon,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Velvet Underground,
Sugar Minott,
KRS-One,
Stereo Dub,
Byron Stingily,
Reagan Youth,
Arcadia,
Unwound,
John Cale,
The Last Poets,
The Associates,
Lungfish,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Leonard Cohen,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Janne Schatter,
Dave Gahan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joey Negro,
Gang Starr,
Panda Bear,
Warsaw,
Cheater Slicks,
Niagra,
Average White Band,
Desert Stars,
Judy Mowatt,
Avey Tare,
Japan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
Aloha Tigers,
Sparks,
Outsiders,
Magma,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Symarip,
Isaac Hayes,
The Real Kids,
CMW,
48th St. Collective,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erykah Badu,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.