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 Finland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Alison Limerick to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
Kas Product,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Invisible,
X-101,
Letta Mbulu,
Dave Gahan,
Shoche,
Yaz,
Black Moon,
the Normal,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barrington Levy,
Grauzone,
Pulsallama,
The Barracudas,
The Beau Brummels,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Adolescents,
One Last Wish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scratch Acid,
Don Cherry,
Franke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rosa Yemen,
Porter Ricks,
Tommy Roe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Residents,
Tears for Fears,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aloha Tigers,
Lakeside,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
MDC,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Byron Stingily,
The Fugs,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Youth Brigade,
Eric B and Rakim,
Popol Vuh,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Sister Nancy,
Monks,
Talk Talk,
Judy Mowatt,
Ornette Coleman,
Pantytec,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.