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 Kyrgyzstan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
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 organ 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 Beau Brummels to the jazz 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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Scrapy,
Groovy Waters,
The Trojans,
The Fire Engines,
Warsaw,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Shuggie Otis,
Masters at Work,
Rites of Spring,
MDC,
Prince Buster,
Yellowson,
Aswad,
The Misunderstood,
The Electric Prunes,
Pulsallama,
Soul Sonic Force,
Slave,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Buzzcocks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Holt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eddi Front,
Cameo,
Talk Talk,
Gastr Del Sol,
Quadrant,
Scratch Acid,
Pet Shop Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crime,
Arab on Radar,
Nirvana,
The Dead C,
Roger Hodgson,
Organ,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stereo Dub,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lyres,
Juan Atkins,
The Gap Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Roxy Music,
Al Stewart,
Davy DMX,
The Cramps,
Fluxion,
Circle Jerks,
The Blackbyrds,
Alton Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
CMW,
Harmonia,
Sonic Youth,
Ituana,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.