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 Belize and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar 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 Yaz to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson 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?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Saints,
D'Angelo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Inner City,
Eric Copeland,
The Doors,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Byron Stingily,
Rakim,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gun Club,
Donny Hathaway,
Danielle Patucci,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lyres,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The New Christs,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Byrd,
Shuggie Otis,
David Bowie,
Scrapy,
Visage,
Camberwell Now,
Minnie Riperton,
Cluster,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang Green,
The Searchers,
Blancmange,
Nirvana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Faraquet,
Ituana,
Section 25,
Flash Fearless,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
KRS-One,
Infiniti,
Pantytec,
Yusef Lateef,
Schoolly D,
The Flesh Eaters,
This Heat,
Youth Brigade,
The Fuzztones,
The Barracudas,
Pole,
Tears for Fears,
Alice Coltrane,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.