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 Papua New Guinea and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Howard Jones to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
the Germs,
Aural Exciters,
UT,
Japan,
Cluster,
Freddie Wadling,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
OOIOO,
Nas,
Cybotron,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sister Nancy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Al Stewart,
Technova,
The Neon Judgement,
Hoover,
Donald Byrd,
Swans,
Blancmange,
Arab on Radar,
Deakin,
Yaz,
Erykah Badu,
Angry Samoans,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
June Days,
Rites of Spring,
Barry Ungar,
The Monks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cameo,
The Gladiators,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Residents,
Inner City,
The Young Rascals,
Darondo,
Wings,
Pole,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Raincoats,
The Blackbyrds,
Niagra,
Minor Threat,
Soul II Soul,
Adolescents,
Bronski Beat,
The Modern Lovers,
Moss Icon,
The Doors,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crash Course in Science,
The Motions,
Black Sheep,
Oblivians,
Steve Hackett,
Crooked Eye,
The Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.