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 Indonesia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Cecil Taylor,
Robert Görl,
China Crisis,
Aloha Tigers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Supertramp,
The Techniques,
Model 500,
The Gun Club,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cure,
The Busters,
Electric Prunes,
Al Stewart,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harmonia,
Magazine,
The Walker Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Sällskapet,
Con Funk Shun,
Visage,
Half Japanese,
Henry Cow,
The Moody Blues,
Tommy Roe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thee Headcoats,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anthony Braxton,
Mark Hollis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jeff Mills,
Roxette,
Robert Hood,
Public Enemy,
New York Dolls,
Fatback Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Inner City,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fire Engines,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ituana,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Smooth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Freddie Wadling,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Faust,
Gang of Four,
Aswad,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.