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 Albania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the techno 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
Monolake,
Lou Reed,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Scion,
Unwound,
DNA,
R.M.O.,
Rakim,
Radiohead,
Camberwell Now,
Joensuu 1685,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Motorama,
Mark Hollis,
Minutemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brass Construction,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Moon,
Blake Baxter,
Lebanon Hanover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jacob Miller,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glenn Branca,
Camouflage,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lindisfarne,
Wire,
Jerry's Kids,
The Smiths,
Amon Düül II,
Ludus,
June Days,
Eve St. Jones,
Lower 48,
Visage,
The Blackbyrds,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Urselle,
Iggy Pop,
Oneida,
Ponytail,
The Litter,
Unrelated Segments,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Motions,
ABC,
Ronnie Foster,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.