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 the UAE and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Robert Palmer 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 Derrick May to the grime 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Seeds,
Unwound,
Aswad,
LL Cool J,
Mars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
Derrick Morgan,
Heaven 17,
MC5,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultra Naté,
JFA,
Loose Ends,
Siglo XX,
Unrelated Segments,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash,
CMW,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lebanon Hanover,
F. McDonald,
U.S. Maple,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mummies,
Cecil Taylor,
Fear,
DJ Style,
Amon Düül,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sarah Menescal,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roy Ayers,
The Techniques,
Howard Jones,
Graham Central Station,
The Pop Group,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
New Age Steppers,
Nico,
Andrew Hill,
Von Mondo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Television Personalities,
June Days,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oblivians,
Jerry's Kids,
Altered Images,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.