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 Germany and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Joy Division,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warsaw,
Guru Guru,
Vainqueur,
AZ,
Ponytail,
John Lydon,
Fad Gadget,
Rapeman,
X-101,
Eric Dolphy,
Junior Murvin,
Half Japanese,
Suicide,
UT,
Letta Mbulu,
The Motions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacob Miller,
The Doors,
The Associates,
Gang Starr,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Divine Comedy,
Bronski Beat,
Moss Icon,
Bill Wells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Visage,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Anakelly,
Sixth Finger,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
June of 44,
Metal Thangz,
Underground Resistance,
cv313,
Yaz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Throbbing Gristle,
La Düsseldorf,
The Trojans,
Accadde A,
Young Marble Giants,
Grauzone,
Neil Young,
The Barracudas,
Crime,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
JFA,
Cymande,
Peter and Kerry,
Minny Pops,
Hoover,
Dennis Brown,
Eric B and Rakim,
Skaos,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Silicon Teens,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.