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 Andorra and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Robert Palmer 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fuzztones,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
Darondo,
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joyce Sims,
Smog,
Buzzcocks,
JFA,
Funkadelic,
David Bowie,
Al Stewart,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
Sun City Girls,
The Smoke,
Audionom,
Jacob Miller,
Lakeside,
Scion,
Hardrive,
Delta 5,
June of 44,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pantaleimon,
Section 25,
Hashim,
Pere Ubu,
Boredoms,
Nick Fraelich,
Silicon Teens,
Dawn Penn,
Deepchord,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Slits,
Parry Music,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dual Sessions,
The Slits,
Scratch Acid,
Boogie Down Productions,
Little Man,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Association,
Minutemen,
Derrick Morgan,
Jandek,
Flipper,
Electric Light Orchestra,
X-101,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Mandrill,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.