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 El Salvador and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Hot Snakes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Toni Rubio,
Soulsonic Force,
Bronski Beat,
Howard Jones,
Neil Young,
Sällskapet,
Ponytail,
China Crisis,
Kenny Larkin,
Trumans Water,
Stiv Bators,
Technova,
Scratch Acid,
Scan 7,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Techniques,
Con Funk Shun,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chris & Cosey,
Half Japanese,
Nirvana,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bill Near,
Metal Thangz,
Electric Prunes,
Colin Newman,
Main Source,
The Doobie Brothers,
Blancmange,
The Slits,
Popol Vuh,
Mr. Review,
Shoche,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
This Heat,
Ronan,
UT,
Lindisfarne,
Sparks,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vladislav Delay,
Rod Modell,
Pylon,
AZ,
The Beau Brummels,
Pierre Henry,
Crime,
Arab on Radar,
Bluetip,
Bizarre Inc.,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.