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 Gambia and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Japan,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Birthday Party,
DNA,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Niagra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Womack,
Nas,
Bluetip,
The Zeros,
R.M.O.,
Monks,
Moebius,
a-ha,
MC5,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wolf Eyes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Fortunes,
Byron Stingily,
Minutemen,
Todd Terry,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Con Funk Shun,
The Skatalites,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sarah Menescal,
The Offenders,
Idris Muhammad,
Youth Brigade,
Radiohead,
Pagans,
Vladislav Delay,
Siglo XX,
Man Parrish,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funky Four + One,
Blake Baxter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Names,
Joey Negro,
Jandek,
The New Christs,
Oblivians,
Junior Murvin,
Janne Schatter,
The Misunderstood,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harry Pussy,
Matthew Halsall,
Dennis Brown,
Stetsasonic,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.