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 Ethiopia and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Crime to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
The Residents,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fugs,
Tommy Roe,
Jacques Brel,
The Gap Band,
New Order,
Ronan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Intrusion,
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
Skarface,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Zeros,
Gong,
Au Pairs,
Con Funk Shun,
The Red Krayola,
Sarah Menescal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pretty Things,
Oneida,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Swans,
the Human League,
The Cure,
Ituana,
Sandy B,
Unrelated Segments,
Ossler,
Joe Finger,
Aswad,
The Leaves,
Cybotron,
Arab on Radar,
Japan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Warsaw,
Zero Boys,
Warren Ellis,
Stetsasonic,
Nirvana,
Liliput,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalann,
The Monochrome Set,
Swans,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Carl Craig,
Roger Hodgson,
Sam Rivers,
Pantytec,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.