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 Jordan and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Monks to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Camouflage,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lower 48,
Lindisfarne,
Sugar Minott,
The Vogues,
Youth Brigade,
the Sonics,
New York Dolls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
OOIOO,
Eve St. Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Yusef Lateef,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chrome,
The Walker Brothers,
Ronnie Foster,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Associates,
Young Marble Giants,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Bar-Kays,
Hoover,
Aural Exciters,
Sun Ra,
Stereo Dub,
Trumans Water,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Bourne,
Michelle Simonal,
Angry Samoans,
Flipper,
Flash Fearless,
Zapp,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Chris Corsano,
John Coltrane,
The Sonics,
Josef K,
Nas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jacob Miller,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echospace,
Roxette,
Delon & Dalcan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brothers Johnson,
Kayak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.