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 Vanuatu and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the techno 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Black Flag,
Black Sheep,
Animal Collective,
Sun Ra,
The Move,
Bronski Beat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ronnie Foster,
Fela Kuti,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roxy Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fad Gadget,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Motions,
Unrelated Segments,
The Seeds,
Minutemen,
The Knickerbockers,
The Beau Brummels,
Juan Atkins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Zapp,
Crime,
Lungfish,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Laurel Aitken,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric Copeland,
Derrick May,
Sonic Youth,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül II,
Heaven 17,
Mark Hollis,
Robert Görl,
Sällskapet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cybotron,
Yaz,
Saccharine Trust,
The Standells,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erykah Badu,
Blancmange,
The Saints,
Tommy Roe,
DNA,
The Last Poets,
Ponytail,
Boogie Down Productions,
Byron Stingily,
The Searchers,
Bobby Sherman,
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mars,
Basic Channel,
June Days,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.