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 United Kingdom 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Monks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cramps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacques Brel,
Aloha Tigers,
Moby Grape,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marvin Gaye,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Cell,
Johnny Clarke,
The Index,
Skarface,
The Techniques,
Audionom,
Sun Ra,
Absolute Body Control,
Qualms,
Trumans Water,
New York Dolls,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gun Club,
Sällskapet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DJ Style,
ABBA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Royal Trux,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonny Sharrock,
Clear Light,
John Holt,
Animal Collective,
Cymande,
Tommy Roe,
Pantytec,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Index,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jacob Miller,
Mark Hollis,
Maurizio,
Sun City Girls,
Icehouse,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.