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 Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Negative Approach to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Pet Shop Boys,
Schoolly D,
Minutemen,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
Eddi Front,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Essential Logic,
Ludus,
Nirvana,
Oneida,
Todd Terry,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
Davy DMX,
Warsaw,
Theoretical Girls,
Q65,
Mission of Burma,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric Copeland,
Marvin Gaye,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Count Five,
Tubeway Army,
Basic Channel,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mojo Men,
Reuben Wilson,
Susan Cadogan,
Mad Mike,
Infiniti,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Magma,
the Normal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Germs,
Michelle Simonal,
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Steve Hackett,
The Invisible,
Robert Görl,
In Retrospect,
Flipper,
The Offenders,
Ronan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joy Division,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
Underground Resistance,
Bad Manners,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rapeman,
Cymande,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.