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 Bangladesh and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum 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 Scrapy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Skarface,
Avey Tare,
Theoretical Girls,
Parry Music,
Mantronix,
The Buckinghams,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Sheep,
Whodini,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Sonics,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlback,
Public Enemy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang Starr,
Slick Rick,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Searchers,
Aswad,
Masters at Work,
A Certain Ratio,
Swans,
Outsiders,
Joe Finger,
This Heat,
Soul II Soul,
Sunsets and Hearts,
David Axelrod,
Accadde A,
Circle Jerks,
Radiopuhelimet,
JFA,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Germs,
Donny Hathaway,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Harmonia,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bill Near,
Buzzcocks,
Lucky Dragons,
Angry Samoans,
The Kinks,
The Residents,
Todd Terry,
Joy Division,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter and Kerry,
Thompson Twins,
Byron Stingily,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eli Mardock,
Zero Boys,
KRS-One,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Halsall,
Freddie Wadling,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.