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 Bhutan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Soul II Soul to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Blake Baxter,
Sarah Menescal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mantronix,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
Pussy Galore,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tears for Fears,
The Names,
Spoonie Gee,
Rapeman,
Nico,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Almond,
The Index,
Agitation Free,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boz Scaggs,
Roy Ayers,
Sam Rivers,
Eddi Front,
Fad Gadget,
Yazoo,
Saccharine Trust,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skriet,
Youth Brigade,
Deadbeat,
Royal Trux,
Johnny Clarke,
Lalann,
Jeff Mills,
EPMD,
Quantec,
Heaven 17,
Sparks,
June of 44,
Schoolly D,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Hood,
Smog,
Con Funk Shun,
Janne Schatter,
New Order,
Lungfish,
Joyce Sims,
Gang Green,
Todd Rundgren,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Sheep,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Minutemen,
Agent Orange,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.