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 Belize and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Michelle Simonal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Janne Schatter,
Todd Rundgren,
Kas Product,
Joyce Sims,
Eden Ahbez,
Wally Richardson,
Flash Fearless,
Barry Ungar,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erasure,
Brass Construction,
Joe Smooth,
K-Klass,
Roger Hodgson,
Rufus Thomas,
Scientists,
Quantec,
Smog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Symarip,
The Monochrome Set,
Crispy Ambulance,
Alice Coltrane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Schoolly D,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fugs,
Desert Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
Suburban Knight,
Johnny Clarke,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Visage,
Adolescents,
48th St. Collective,
Bill Wells,
Althea and Donna,
The Gap Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jerry's Kids,
The Grass Roots,
Tim Buckley,
Scrapy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alphaville,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jacques Brel,
Wasted Youth,
Animal Collective,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ornette Coleman,
The J.B.'s,
The Young Rascals,
Electric Prunes,
The Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Technova,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.