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 Swaziland and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Portland and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 June of 44 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Animal Collective,
The Busters,
Jandek,
Von Mondo,
The Victims,
Icehouse,
The Moody Blues,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jawbox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Underground Resistance,
The Cramps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ornette Coleman,
Q65,
Henry Cow,
Derrick Morgan,
Todd Terry,
Colin Newman,
Pylon,
Parry Music,
June Days,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
The Grass Roots,
John Holt,
Amazonics,
Anthony Braxton,
China Crisis,
Pussy Galore,
Audionom,
Au Pairs,
Delta 5,
Rapeman,
Eric Dolphy,
Sällskapet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Can,
Brick,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lightning Bolt,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
The Sound,
Drexciya,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
Soft Machine,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wire,
Mission of Burma,
The Modern Lovers,
the Soft Cell,
Dark Day,
Joy Division,
The Angels of Light,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.