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 Netherlands and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
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 chamberlin 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 10cc to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Jimmy McGriff,
Monolake,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pere Ubu,
Camouflage,
DJ Sneak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wally Richardson,
Yazoo,
Ultra Naté,
Graham Central Station,
Half Japanese,
Rekid,
Jacob Miller,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Urselle,
Theoretical Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Happenings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick Morgan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Swell Maps,
JFA,
CMW,
Man Parrish,
Nik Kershaw,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kenny Larkin,
Lyres,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Carl Craig,
Franke,
Make Up,
The Skatalites,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Babytalk,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gories,
The Cramps,
Albert Ayler,
The Pretty Things,
Minny Pops,
The Velvet Underground,
Gong,
Ponytail,
Silicon Teens,
Bauhaus,
The Fuzztones,
The Motions,
Loose Ends,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Finger,
The Kinks,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.