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 Denmark and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacques Brel to the jazz 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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cal Tjader,
David McCallum,
Gabor Szabo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cameo,
Average White Band,
Index,
Robert Wyatt,
Erasure,
X-102,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Graham Central Station,
Saccharine Trust,
The Smoke,
MC5,
Cluster,
Interpol,
Visage,
Simply Red,
Carl Craig,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
Reuben Wilson,
Mars,
Connie Case,
T.S.O.L.,
Peter & Gordon,
Subhumans,
Iggy Pop,
Glambeats Corp.,
These Immortal Souls,
Tubeway Army,
Niagra,
Altered Images,
48th St. Collective,
Mad Mike,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nas,
The Zeros,
Main Source,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Erykah Badu,
Monolake,
Reagan Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marmalade,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter and Kerry,
Alphaville,
Gichy Dan,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.