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 Burkina and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 DJ Sneak to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Raincoats,
U.S. Maple,
June Days,
Sound Behaviour,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Dorothy Ashby,
New Order,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultravox,
KRS-One,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
Darondo,
Eric Copeland,
Black Pus,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fuzztones,
Loose Ends,
the Soft Cell,
Derrick May,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Remains,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Happenings,
Y Pants,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Iggy Pop,
Boredoms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pere Ubu,
Hasil Adkins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Walker Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Max Romeo,
Black Flag,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
Mo-Dettes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David Bowie,
Tomorrow,
The Cure,
One Last Wish,
Siglo XX,
Duran Duran,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sight & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Scientists,
Blancmange,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.