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 Maldives and from Halifax.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Television Personalities to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids 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?
Main Source,
La Düsseldorf,
June Days,
The Vogues,
Index,
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
Bob Dylan,
Infiniti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Birthday Party,
Groovy Waters,
The Invisible,
DJ Sneak,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fluxion,
The Skatalites,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül,
The New Christs,
Amon Düül II,
The Trojans,
Simply Red,
Graham Central Station,
X-102,
Theoretical Girls,
Ornette Coleman,
Bauhaus,
Janne Schatter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Niagra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Quadrant,
Sandy B,
Lower 48,
Tomorrow,
Matthew Bourne,
Alton Ellis,
Blancmange,
Bang On A Can,
The Pretty Things,
Sound Behaviour,
Crash Course in Science,
The Smiths,
Monks,
Crime,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
cv313,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Dead Boys,
Quantec,
John Foxx,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Khruangbin,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.