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 Maldives and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Television to the dance 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Index,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joe Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Parry Music,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bang On A Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radiopuhelimet,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
Freddie Wadling,
Scratch Acid,
Negative Approach,
Nick Fraelich,
Lungfish,
Todd Terry,
Silicon Teens,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
Dawn Penn,
New Order,
Camberwell Now,
Radiohead,
FM Einheit,
Alton Ellis,
Joe Finger,
Man Eating Sloth,
Slave,
Mission of Burma,
Reagan Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Anakelly,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Womack,
Lower 48,
Soulsonic Force,
Delon & Dalcan,
Altered Images,
MDC,
Blake Baxter,
Matthew Halsall,
John Lydon,
Rakim,
Whodini,
Charles Mingus,
John Foxx,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barbara Tucker,
Fela Kuti,
Monks,
Oneida,
Reuben Wilson,
the Germs,
Tom Boy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.