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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yazoo to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba 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 synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Anakelly,
Lightning Bolt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kaleidoscope,
Index,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lyres,
Al Stewart,
Godley & Creme,
Buzzcocks,
Archie Shepp,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade,
T.S.O.L.,
Jerry's Kids,
R.M.O.,
Sällskapet,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Human League,
the Sonics,
Don Cherry,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zero Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Leonard Cohen,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ituana,
Janne Schatter,
Ludus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Loose Ends,
Cymande,
Jacques Brel,
the Human League,
Bill Wells,
Circle Jerks,
Neu!,
Symarip,
Kas Product,
Barbara Tucker,
Delon & Dalcan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Royal Trux,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Barracudas,
Lindisfarne,
DNA,
Cybotron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Steve Hackett,
Kerri Chandler,
Andrew Hill,
Hasil Adkins,
Lakeside,
Lucky Dragons,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Monochrome Set,
Second Layer,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.