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 Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blossom Toes,
Danielle Patucci,
Organ,
Crispian St. Peters,
Suicide,
The Techniques,
The Zeros,
Bronski Beat,
Ten City,
Negative Approach,
In Retrospect,
Sonic Youth,
Mission of Burma,
Shuggie Otis,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Style,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chris & Cosey,
Ituana,
Theoretical Girls,
Funkadelic,
Patti Smith,
Bluetip,
AZ,
Q and Not U,
Marine Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Holt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Desert Stars,
ABC,
kango's stein massive,
Ponytail,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
The Toasters,
Glambeats Corp.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Duran Duran,
The Velvet Underground,
The Last Poets,
Fluxion,
Ken Boothe,
Tears for Fears,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Wasted Youth,
OOIOO,
Kurtis Blow,
Technova,
Rod Modell,
DNA,
Radiohead,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.