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 Senegal and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron 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 Yaz to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Tim Buckley,
The Blackbyrds,
Wasted Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Alton Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pierre Henry,
Reuben Wilson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lou Reed,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ohio Players,
The Techniques,
The Moleskins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Toni Rubio,
The J.B.'s,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Chris & Cosey,
Stiv Bators,
Main Source,
Barry Ungar,
James White and The Blacks,
Aaron Thompson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slick Rick,
Ludus,
Whodini,
E-Dancer,
John Holt,
Guru Guru,
La Düsseldorf,
The American Breed,
Unwound,
Harmonia,
Oblivians,
The Mojo Men,
The Sonics,
David Axelrod,
Alphaville,
Ten City,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Jeff Lynne,
David McCallum,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Motions,
Sun City Girls,
The Music Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Litter,
the Association,
Scientists,
Lindisfarne,
Symarip,
The Skatalites,
Roxette,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.