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 Nigeria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Scientists to the rock 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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eric Dolphy,
Television,
Barry Ungar,
Wings,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
David Axelrod,
The Grass Roots,
Crime,
Inner City,
Glambeats Corp.,
Essential Logic,
Fela Kuti,
Joe Smooth,
Sun Ra,
Banda Bassotti,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tres Demented,
Nils Olav,
Make Up,
Lower 48,
Throbbing Gristle,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Half Japanese,
Kurtis Blow,
Joe Finger,
Minutemen,
Warren Ellis,
8 Eyed Spy,
kango's stein massive,
The Angels of Light,
The Cure,
Minor Threat,
This Heat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Intrusion,
The Buckinghams,
David Bowie,
Main Source,
LL Cool J,
The Birthday Party,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Television Personalities,
Sex Pistols,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Sonics,
Cal Tjader,
Nas,
Wire,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.