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 Zimbabwe and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Wasted Youth to the rap 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Organ,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
E-Dancer,
Television,
David McCallum,
June Days,
Duran Duran,
Adolescents,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cecil Taylor,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sugar Minott,
the Human League,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
Oneida,
Model 500,
Mars,
Brick,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Sheep,
H. Thieme,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The J.B.'s,
Massinfluence,
Sun Ra,
The Gories,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lalann,
Michelle Simonal,
Bluetip,
Rotary Connection,
Fad Gadget,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sight & Sound,
Roxy Music,
James White and The Blacks,
Letta Mbulu,
Patti Smith,
Wire,
Shoche,
Alton Ellis,
Inner City,
Black Pus,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dirtbombs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter and Kerry,
Blossom Toes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lungfish,
Japan,
Parry Music,
kango's stein massive,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.