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 France and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Youth Brigade to the jazz 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Association,
Sugar Minott,
Bauhaus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Vainqueur,
Los Fastidios,
The Slits,
Schoolly D,
Arab on Radar,
Wally Richardson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
Dual Sessions,
U.S. Maple,
Tubeway Army,
Royal Trux,
Jandek,
Saccharine Trust,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cameo,
Derrick Morgan,
Bush Tetras,
Rakim,
DNA,
Nico,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Steve Hackett,
R.M.O.,
The Red Krayola,
Slave,
Unwound,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Foxx,
Kayak,
Nirvana,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Arthur Verocai,
Janne Schatter,
The Beau Brummels,
The American Breed,
Roy Ayers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Can,
The Knickerbockers,
Cal Tjader,
Subhumans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Althea and Donna,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
D'Angelo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.