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 Tunisia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Reuben Wilson to the grime 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Bauhaus,
FM Einheit,
Joe Finger,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stereo Dub,
The Zeros,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Newcleus,
Wings,
Rosa Yemen,
Fugazi,
The Tremeloes,
48th St. Collective,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobby Byrd,
Rhythm & Sound,
Young Marble Giants,
Interpol,
Bush Tetras,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eve St. Jones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cal Tjader,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Man Parrish,
K-Klass,
Outsiders,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Young Rascals,
Glambeats Corp.,
CMW,
Banda Bassotti,
The Music Machine,
Excepter,
The New Christs,
Rakim,
Country Teasers,
Niagra,
Hashim,
Saccharine Trust,
Das Ding,
Lou Christie,
Darondo,
Neil Young,
The Skatalites,
Hardrive,
Ossler,
Scion,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scientists,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.