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 Greece and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kerri Chandler to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Sun City Girls,
X-101,
The Zeros,
The Stooges,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Make Up,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Swans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Fela Kuti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quadrant,
48th St. Collective,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soft Machine,
The Gun Club,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
PIL,
Harmonia,
Subhumans,
June Days,
Pantaleimon,
Banda Bassotti,
Angry Samoans,
Livin' Joy,
The Tremeloes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Happenings,
Scratch Acid,
Marvin Gaye,
Lebanon Hanover,
Magma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joy Division,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
Soulsonic Force,
Darondo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Steve Hackett,
The Blues Magoos,
Nirvana,
Sandy B,
Bob Dylan,
OOIOO,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Ossler,
Zapp,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lyres,
Lindisfarne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kerri Chandler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.