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 Libya and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
Technova,
Fela Kuti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Eli Mardock,
David McCallum,
Scrapy,
Index,
The Misunderstood,
Monolake,
the Germs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MDC,
Lakeside,
Bang On A Can,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Shadows of Knight,
Make Up,
Lalann,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The J.B.'s,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
World's Most,
Alton Ellis,
Kas Product,
Juan Atkins,
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Colin Newman,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cowsills,
Scan 7,
The Blackbyrds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Graham Central Station,
These Immortal Souls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Television Personalities,
Funky Four + One,
Suburban Knight,
The Golliwogs,
Sixth Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun Ra,
Drexciya,
Cal Tjader,
Ultravox,
Al Stewart,
Gang Starr,
Thompson Twins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mad Mike,
X-101,
Blossom Toes,
Isaac Hayes,
Erasure,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.