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 Cyprus and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Skriet to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
The Pop Group,
Minutemen,
Sex Pistols,
Steve Hackett,
Royal Trux,
Lalann,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Slick Rick,
Inner City,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Connie Case,
Livin' Joy,
Max Romeo,
Flash Fearless,
Fat Boys,
Robert Görl,
Amon Düül II,
Donald Byrd,
Black Sheep,
The Offenders,
The Golliwogs,
Arcadia,
The Music Machine,
Faust,
Todd Terry,
The Saints,
John Holt,
Patti Smith,
Zapp,
Al Stewart,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
CMW,
ABC,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun Ra,
Trumans Water,
Average White Band,
June Days,
Gang Starr,
Soft Machine,
Morten Harket,
Barrington Levy,
Suburban Knight,
Tubeway Army,
Khruangbin,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
Eric Dolphy,
the Swans,
The Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thompson Twins,
DJ Style,
Maurizio,
Roy Ayers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.