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 Germany and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer 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 The Count Five to the jazz 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Minny Pops,
Junior Murvin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
Boredoms,
Depeche Mode,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Blues Magoos,
Spandau Ballet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Animal Collective,
Radiohead,
Nik Kershaw,
Qualms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Royal Trux,
Anakelly,
Davy DMX,
Adolescents,
Newcleus,
Wally Richardson,
Yusef Lateef,
The Divine Comedy,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sound,
Essential Logic,
Bauhaus,
Gang Starr,
Janne Schatter,
The Zeros,
Sound Behaviour,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vainqueur,
Pole,
Television,
Aloha Tigers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Make Up,
Peter and Kerry,
Ponytail,
Black Bananas,
Aswad,
The Doors,
Bluetip,
Supertramp,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultimate Spinach,
Con Funk Shun,
Jimmy McGriff,
Funky Four + One,
the Bar-Kays,
Joyce Sims,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.