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 Brunei and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Slave to the dance 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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Robert Görl,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rod Modell,
The Litter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donny Hathaway,
Hot Snakes,
Mantronix,
Fad Gadget,
Lou Reed,
Bush Tetras,
Theoretical Girls,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Almond,
Pere Ubu,
Vladislav Delay,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rekid,
Cymande,
Animal Collective,
The Toasters,
Newcleus,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Sonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Talk Talk,
Outsiders,
Average White Band,
Sparks,
DNA,
Model 500,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Walker Brothers,
The Motions,
Avey Tare,
Sun Ra,
Ice-T,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
These Immortal Souls,
Buzzcocks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Moon,
The Fugs,
Ronnie Foster,
Nils Olav,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.