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 Japan and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Q65 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
MDC,
Altered Images,
The Cowsills,
The Wake,
Second Layer,
Guru Guru,
Au Pairs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pop Group,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Main Source,
Nick Fraelich,
Eden Ahbez,
E-Dancer,
Theoretical Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang Starr,
Symarip,
Black Bananas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Carl Craig,
Magma,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alton Ellis,
Scientists,
ABBA,
Nico,
Talk Talk,
The Birthday Party,
Rotary Connection,
Audionom,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
Anthony Braxton,
Sun Ra,
Skriet,
Underground Resistance,
Ituana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New York Dolls,
Slick Rick,
Kenny Larkin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Loose Ends,
the Association,
Lower 48,
Rekid,
Boredoms,
Flash Fearless,
Roxy Music,
Pagans,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Invisible,
Drexciya,
Joe Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.