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 Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar 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 Index to the electroclash 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Sneak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fat Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kas Product,
PIL,
Swell Maps,
Graham Central Station,
The Birthday Party,
Drexciya,
Alison Limerick,
Rapeman,
Scan 7,
Wasted Youth,
the Germs,
Sandy B,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Cale,
The Martian,
The Kinks,
Grey Daturas,
Hardrive,
Shoche,
Oblivians,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Duran Duran,
Average White Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Tremeloes,
The Trojans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Wake,
Josef K,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Funkadelic,
Max Romeo,
Donny Hathaway,
Angry Samoans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Gang Dance,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra,
Soft Cell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Steve Hackett,
Buzzcocks,
Sällskapet,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Mojo Men,
Quantec,
Half Japanese,
Alphaville,
Hasil Adkins,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.