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 Malawi and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Soft Cell,
Tomorrow,
John Coltrane,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nick Fraelich,
FM Einheit,
Bluetip,
L. Decosne,
the Human League,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ralphi Rosario,
In Retrospect,
10cc,
The Cramps,
Zapp,
Marmalade,
Bad Manners,
Lungfish,
Sun Ra,
Peter and Kerry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sun City Girls,
Sam Rivers,
Danielle Patucci,
Bang On A Can,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Green,
Bronski Beat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Carl Craig,
Minutemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Swans,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lightning Bolt,
Groovy Waters,
Todd Rundgren,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eddi Front,
DNA,
Flash Fearless,
Sonic Youth,
Warsaw,
Eli Mardock,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronan,
The Vogues,
Ornette Coleman,
Amon Düül II,
Morten Harket,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.