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 Czech Republic and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Joyce Sims to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Metal Thangz,
Godley & Creme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
T. Rex,
Accadde A,
Graham Central Station,
Bauhaus,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Byrd,
The Dead C,
Ponytail,
Basic Channel,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Half Japanese,
Jerry's Kids,
Television Personalities,
Simply Red,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smiths,
Section 25,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Oblivians,
Negative Approach,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ossler,
Wasted Youth,
Chrome,
Jacob Miller,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Black Dice,
Andrew Hill,
New York Dolls,
The American Breed,
Bobby Womack,
Idris Muhammad,
The Cowsills,
ABBA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
The Fire Engines,
Shoche,
The Cure,
Nils Olav,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Little Man,
CMW,
Eden Ahbez,
Cecil Taylor,
Derrick Morgan,
This Heat,
Roy Ayers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.