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 Gabon and from Mumbai.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gerry Rafferty to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
the Germs,
The Walker Brothers,
The Happenings,
Stockholm Monsters,
JFA,
Negative Approach,
The Monochrome Set,
Slick Rick,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Stooges,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fad Gadget,
Jimmy McGriff,
Connie Case,
Gang Green,
Silicon Teens,
Johnny Clarke,
Charles Mingus,
the Human League,
Lindisfarne,
Slave,
Audionom,
China Crisis,
The Moleskins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Absolute Body Control,
The Modern Lovers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Icehouse,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Metal Thangz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cheater Slicks,
Neu!,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Golliwogs,
Grauzone,
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronan,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Altered Images,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
Mandrill,
Scan 7,
Avey Tare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
T.S.O.L.,
The Five Americans,
Drexciya,
Magma,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cure,
Derrick Morgan,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.