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 Poland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Bronski Beat to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Anakelly,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gun Club,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
10cc,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Raincoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Monolake,
The American Breed,
Essential Logic,
Erykah Badu,
The United States of America,
The Slits,
David Bowie,
Metal Thangz,
DJ Style,
The Gladiators,
Freddie Wadling,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Pussy Galore,
F. McDonald,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Royal Trux,
Sällskapet,
Blake Baxter,
Interpol,
Donny Hathaway,
48th St. Collective,
Au Pairs,
Aural Exciters,
Japan,
Blossom Toes,
MDC,
Oneida,
Gang Starr,
The Invisible,
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Inner City,
Ice-T,
Minny Pops,
Fugazi,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alton Ellis,
Zapp,
Yusef Lateef,
Faust,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yellowson,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.