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 St Lucia and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Bush Tetras to the grime 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions 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 funk 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 a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth 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?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gap Band,
Subhumans,
Boredoms,
The Slackers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alison Limerick,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cluster,
Basic Channel,
Barbara Tucker,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soulsonic Force,
Yazoo,
Groovy Waters,
Drexciya,
Hashim,
New Order,
Oneida,
Davy DMX,
Henry Cow,
Parry Music,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Raincoats,
Marine Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Stereo Dub,
Nick Fraelich,
Rakim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Techniques,
Joyce Sims,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
ABC,
Dark Day,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ohio Players,
Ultravox,
the Bar-Kays,
Bill Wells,
Rotary Connection,
Ultra Naté,
Infiniti,
David McCallum,
Livin' Joy,
Television,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pole,
Panda Bear,
Amon Düül II,
The Standells,
Public Image Ltd.,
Arab on Radar,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Smooth,
Harmonia,
Camberwell Now,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sandy B,
The Knickerbockers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.