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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 oboe 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 Alton Ellis to the funk 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pet Shop Boys,
David Bowie,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Make Up,
the Germs,
The Birthday Party,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Section 25,
Livin' Joy,
Infiniti,
Gichy Dan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Marc Almond,
Sam Rivers,
The Moleskins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Brass Construction,
Sex Pistols,
PIL,
Maleditus Sound,
The Raincoats,
Public Image Ltd.,
KRS-One,
The Modern Lovers,
The Move,
Index,
Stetsasonic,
The Barracudas,
Cybotron,
The Zeros,
Monks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Television,
Soul Sonic Force,
Laurel Aitken,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stereo Dub,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Swans,
Kas Product,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Residents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Donald Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Bronski Beat,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echospace,
Glenn Branca,
Eric Copeland,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Main Source,
The Wake,
Joyce Sims,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.