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 Somalia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the disco 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 Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Radiohead,
Au Pairs,
Funkadelic,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Rundgren,
Oneida,
Ultra Naté,
The Count Five,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ornette Coleman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grauzone,
Brass Construction,
Youth Brigade,
The Gladiators,
Prince Buster,
Von Mondo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marc Almond,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Porter Ricks,
Mission of Burma,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Judy Mowatt,
Negative Approach,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crispian St. Peters,
LL Cool J,
World's Most,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Invisible,
Stereo Dub,
Accadde A,
The Human League,
Simply Red,
Sound Behaviour,
Metal Thangz,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anakelly,
Bush Tetras,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tommy Roe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alton Ellis,
Pylon,
Grey Daturas,
EPMD,
Yaz,
Urselle,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rufus Thomas,
Public Image Ltd.,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Electric Prunes,
Technova,
The Saints,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.