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 Egypt and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lou Christie to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
E-Dancer,
The Cramps,
Radiohead,
Joe Smooth,
Cameo,
Simply Red,
B.T. Express,
David Axelrod,
Shuggie Otis,
Arab on Radar,
Yazoo,
Arthur Verocai,
Clear Light,
Pantaleimon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sun City Girls,
Japan,
Tomorrow,
Delta 5,
Mad Mike,
The Red Krayola,
The Velvet Underground,
Aswad,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Moleskins,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shoche,
Los Fastidios,
Index,
Joyce Sims,
Half Japanese,
Boz Scaggs,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül,
Sister Nancy,
Wally Richardson,
Spandau Ballet,
Roy Ayers,
Average White Band,
Reagan Youth,
Au Pairs,
Electric Prunes,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pop Group,
Severed Heads,
The Fire Engines,
ABBA,
DNA,
Neu!,
Soulsonic Force,
Susan Cadogan,
Boredoms,
The Searchers,
The Smoke,
Rekid,
Roger Hodgson,
Zero Boys,
The Fall,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.