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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the funk 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 Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter & Gordon,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
David Bowie,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul II Soul,
X-102,
Wolf Eyes,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Moon,
The Associates,
Sun Ra,
Dark Day,
The Trojans,
Animal Collective,
Joyce Sims,
48th St. Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Moebius,
Mars,
In Retrospect,
Alison Limerick,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
The Electric Prunes,
Youth Brigade,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eden Ahbez,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
Grauzone,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mandrill,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arthur Verocai,
Susan Cadogan,
Con Funk Shun,
The Motions,
Moss Icon,
Lucky Dragons,
kango's stein massive,
Magma,
Severed Heads,
H. Thieme,
The Happenings,
T. Rex,
Massinfluence,
the Fania All-Stars,
EPMD,
Stiv Bators,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Qualms,
Rakim,
Schoolly D,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.