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 Dominica and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Chris & Cosey,
Ludus,
Sound Behaviour,
The Moleskins,
Soft Machine,
Dark Day,
Zero Boys,
Brick,
Neil Young,
The Leaves,
Boogie Down Productions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sällskapet,
Bobby Womack,
Crooked Eye,
Radiohead,
Soul II Soul,
Slave,
Crispian St. Peters,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Pus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Oblivians,
Curtis Mayfield,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gregory Isaacs,
Los Fastidios,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pagans,
The Move,
Darondo,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
cv313,
Ice-T,
David Axelrod,
Rhythm & Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Ornette Coleman,
Hardrive,
Kerri Chandler,
Harry Pussy,
Albert Ayler,
Faraquet,
John Foxx,
Mo-Dettes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Section 25,
Goldenarms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pantytec,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric Dolphy,
Morten Harket,
Man Parrish,
Matthew Halsall,
the Soft Cell,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.