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 Azerbaijan and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marshall Jefferson to the dance 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Quantec,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Altered Images,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lyres,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Aswad,
T.S.O.L.,
Rakim,
Fad Gadget,
The Invisible,
Pulsallama,
The Seeds,
Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Lalann,
Arab on Radar,
Pussy Galore,
Section 25,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rufus Thomas,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
Joy Division,
Aural Exciters,
Spandau Ballet,
The Misunderstood,
Minnie Riperton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Flipper,
The Happenings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cure,
Alton Ellis,
X-101,
Chris Corsano,
Underground Resistance,
Lower 48,
Silicon Teens,
Peter & Gordon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Real Kids,
The Cramps,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Green,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Whodini,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funky Four + One,
Brick,
Rekid,
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.