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 United Kingdom and from Columbus.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 These Immortal Souls to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Grauzone,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wings,
cv313,
Whodini,
Oneida,
Piero Umiliani,
Oblivians,
Suburban Knight,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Sneak,
Lakeside,
The Smoke,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Wells,
Black Sheep,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Boz Scaggs,
Tubeway Army,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hot Snakes,
The Walker Brothers,
Eli Mardock,
Zapp,
The Monks,
Sixth Finger,
Monks,
Maleditus Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Metal Thangz,
The Busters,
Sällskapet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Soul Sonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Colin Newman,
Schoolly D,
Lindisfarne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cybotron,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Slits,
Byron Stingily,
Urselle,
Dave Gahan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ken Boothe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.