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 Taiwan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Buckinghams to the crunk 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
The Slackers,
The Blackbyrds,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fire Engines,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Star Department,
Sister Nancy,
Todd Terry,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Chris & Cosey,
Half Japanese,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fortunes,
Leonard Cohen,
Iggy Pop,
Sexual Harrassment,
L. Decosne,
Bluetip,
The Busters,
New Order,
Cameo,
Massinfluence,
Wire,
Sight & Sound,
The Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pulsallama,
Porter Ricks,
Crime,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Fraelich,
Junior Murvin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
Guru Guru,
Moss Icon,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerri Chandler,
The Sonics,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Intrusion,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Count Five,
David McCallum,
PIL,
Trumans Water,
Aswad,
Average White Band,
Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
Mark Hollis,
Bad Manners,
Black Moon,
Spandau Ballet,
B.T. Express,
Lungfish,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.