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 Kiribati and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Connie Case to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terry Callier,
Surgeon,
Ludus,
FM Einheit,
Brothers Johnson,
Funkadelic,
Fela Kuti,
Dennis Brown,
Soulsonic Force,
The Index,
Hashim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joey Negro,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yaz,
Quando Quango,
Technova,
Kayak,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
Gichy Dan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Anthony Braxton,
Youth Brigade,
Theoretical Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wings,
Susan Cadogan,
Warsaw,
The Techniques,
The Skatalites,
Liliput,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rekid,
The Birthday Party,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mr. Review,
Banda Bassotti,
Eddi Front,
Sun Ra,
Soul II Soul,
Steve Hackett,
The Modern Lovers,
a-ha,
Davy DMX,
The Dead C,
The Pretty Things,
ABBA,
Erasure,
Brick,
10cc,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.