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 Japan and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lalann to the rap 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Spandau Ballet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Faraquet,
Skarface,
L. Decosne,
The Tremeloes,
Fatback Band,
The Skatalites,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
Masters at Work,
Alphaville,
Gregory Isaacs,
Henry Cow,
Quantec,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra,
These Immortal Souls,
Cheater Slicks,
The Durutti Column,
Deepchord,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Eden Ahbez,
David McCallum,
Rapeman,
The Smiths,
Roy Ayers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Harmonia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Flipper,
Mr. Review,
This Heat,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Davy DMX,
Ponytail,
Josef K,
DJ Sneak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
James White and The Blacks,
Hasil Adkins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jacques Brel,
The Pretty Things,
Bootsy Collins,
X-Ray Spex,
Blossom Toes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Electric Prunes,
Boredoms,
Reuben Wilson,
Ludus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.