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 Angola and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Misunderstood to the rap 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Von Mondo,
The Pop Group,
Cameo,
Sun City Girls,
The Move,
Joensuu 1685,
the Sonics,
Camouflage,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Moebius,
Dawn Penn,
Funkadelic,
Prince Buster,
New Age Steppers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soft Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
a-ha,
Radiohead,
Morten Harket,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Henry Cow,
Second Layer,
Buzzcocks,
Eric Copeland,
OOIOO,
Funky Four + One,
Urselle,
Darondo,
Visage,
Ornette Coleman,
Quantec,
Albert Ayler,
Stetsasonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Swans,
the Germs,
Brick,
Boz Scaggs,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang On A Can,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pylon,
The Music Machine,
Nik Kershaw,
Roy Ayers,
Hasil Adkins,
Nico,
the Normal,
Japan,
Roxette,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.