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 Zambia and from Copenhagen.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the dance 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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
This Heat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker,
Minnie Riperton,
Nas,
Neu!,
the Swans,
The Dead C,
Sällskapet,
Toni Rubio,
Television,
Glambeats Corp.,
Iggy Pop,
Grey Daturas,
Lungfish,
Ultravox,
DNA,
Kurtis Blow,
The Sound,
Fad Gadget,
Scientists,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doobie Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marshall Jefferson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stetsasonic,
Little Man,
The Grass Roots,
Jandek,
John Cale,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blues Magoos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doors,
Goldenarms,
Reuben Wilson,
KRS-One,
Stockholm Monsters,
Section 25,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grandmaster Flash,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Move,
Ituana,
Dave Gahan,
Scan 7,
Blossom Toes,
Sparks,
Country Teasers,
Thee Headcoats,
Can,
the Germs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gladiators,
Peter & Gordon,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.