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 South Africa and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Peter & Gordon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Porter Ricks,
The Motions,
Bobby Byrd,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fugs,
OOIOO,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Erasure,
The Monks,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Sherman,
Section 25,
Flash Fearless,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barry Ungar,
Brass Construction,
Sandy B,
Slave,
Negative Approach,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anakelly,
The Dave Clark Five,
Silicon Teens,
Amon Düül,
Rosa Yemen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Holt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Freddie Wadling,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Adolescents,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Youth Brigade,
Isaac Hayes,
Scratch Acid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter,
The Barracudas,
Slick Rick,
Reuben Wilson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tears for Fears,
Pole,
DJ Sneak,
Gabor Szabo,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Martian,
Excepter,
The Tremeloes,
Talk Talk,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kenny Larkin,
AZ,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Machine,
Iggy Pop,
The Doobie Brothers,
Urselle,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.