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 Bahamas and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Holger Czukay 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 Todd Rundgren to the electroclash 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eli Mardock,
Eddi Front,
Sun City Girls,
Inner City,
Model 500,
Altered Images,
Procol Harum,
Darondo,
Harry Pussy,
Charles Mingus,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
Unwound,
Funkadelic,
Los Fastidios,
the Bar-Kays,
Hardrive,
Stiv Bators,
The Divine Comedy,
Echospace,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
Cecil Taylor,
Warsaw,
Arab on Radar,
Kaleidoscope,
John Holt,
China Crisis,
Sex Pistols,
Steve Hackett,
JFA,
Lou Christie,
EPMD,
Faust,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Frankie Knuckles,
Todd Terry,
Stetsasonic,
Lakeside,
Simply Red,
Prince Buster,
Public Enemy,
The Martian,
The Knickerbockers,
Michelle Simonal,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed,
Rites of Spring,
Mary Jane Girls,
Monolake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.