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 Senegal and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the disco 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
The Five Americans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sparks,
Newcleus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Bananas,
The J.B.'s,
Alton Ellis,
Shoche,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Saccharine Trust,
the Bar-Kays,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sugar Minott,
Gastr Del Sol,
Max Romeo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barrington Levy,
Soft Cell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Duran Duran,
Stiv Bators,
Public Enemy,
Crooked Eye,
Roger Hodgson,
The Misunderstood,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Grass Roots,
Yellowson,
Wings,
Liliput,
Soul Sonic Force,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nirvana,
Siglo XX,
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
Magma,
EPMD,
This Heat,
Vainqueur,
The Index,
Quando Quango,
Kenny Larkin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
CMW,
Pierre Henry,
Amon Düül,
The Trojans,
Grey Daturas,
Reuben Wilson,
Pantaleimon,
Chris Corsano,
Hoover,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.