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 Andorra and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stereo Dub to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Flash Fearless,
Heaven 17,
Jacques Brel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scratch Acid,
New York Dolls,
The Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Buzzcocks,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cramps,
Brand Nubian,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camouflage,
Donny Hathaway,
The Star Department,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tom Boy,
The Searchers,
Radiohead,
Minnie Riperton,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skaos,
the Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
Letta Mbulu,
the Swans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Duran Duran,
Newcleus,
FM Einheit,
World's Most,
Whodini,
Slave,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rufus Thomas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Easy Going,
The Fuzztones,
Amon Düül,
Ludus,
PIL,
Japan,
Marine Girls,
Laurel Aitken,
The Pretty Things,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tim Buckley,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Slackers,
Schoolly D,
Johnny Clarke,
Zapp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Massinfluence,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
Black Sheep,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.