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 Saudi Arabia and from Beijing.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Blackbyrds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mummies,
the Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Talk Talk,
Alison Limerick,
Erykah Badu,
Alice Coltrane,
CMW,
X-Ray Spex,
Vladislav Delay,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Graham Central Station,
Desert Stars,
Josef K,
In Retrospect,
Colin Newman,
Brand Nubian,
The Searchers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aaron Thompson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Remains,
The Sonics,
Rekid,
Can,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter & Gordon,
Donald Byrd,
Wire,
Agent Orange,
ABBA,
MC5,
Quadrant,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Intrusion,
Kenny Larkin,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Leonard Cohen,
Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
The Saints,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ten City,
X-102,
Sight & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gories,
Duran Duran,
Steve Hackett,
EPMD,
Index,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.