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 Austria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro 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 Barrington Levy to the crunk 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Johnny Clarke,
Television,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Massinfluence,
Amon Düül,
Country Teasers,
Nation of Ulysses,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Swell Maps,
Sandy B,
The Grass Roots,
Groovy Waters,
Babytalk,
the Germs,
Godley & Creme,
Parry Music,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Piero Umiliani,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Vogues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fall,
Arcadia,
John Holt,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cluster,
Masters at Work,
Pierre Henry,
Brothers Johnson,
The Happenings,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drexciya,
Cheater Slicks,
Blake Baxter,
Second Layer,
Neil Young,
The J.B.'s,
Minor Threat,
Television Personalities,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
John Foxx,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Pus,
The Slackers,
Wasted Youth,
New Order,
Ultra Naté,
JFA,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Neon Judgement,
Quadrant,
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.