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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
The Invisible,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Easy Going,
Heaven 17,
Cal Tjader,
Lalann,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Altered Images,
Schoolly D,
The Gap Band,
Minutemen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Lynne,
48th St. Collective,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Television Personalities,
Radiopuhelimet,
Motorama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
L. Decosne,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
Funky Four + One,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Bar-Kays,
Joey Negro,
Sun City Girls,
Alphaville,
Malaria!,
Suicide,
Eric Dolphy,
Colin Newman,
Scan 7,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kerrie Biddell,
Franke,
Eric Copeland,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Arthur Verocai,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crime,
John Cale,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Quadrant,
The Seeds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bang On A Can,
The Residents,
Intrusion,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jeru the Damaja,
Little Man,
Whodini,
Agent Orange,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.