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 Guatemala and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kool Moe Dee to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Silicon Teens,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
The Raincoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Cymande,
Big Daddy Kane,
Khruangbin,
Lou Christie,
The Fall,
Judy Mowatt,
Joensuu 1685,
David McCallum,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Angels of Light,
UT,
U.S. Maple,
the Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Ronnie Foster,
X-101,
The Residents,
Saccharine Trust,
The Offenders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Cale,
Spoonie Gee,
T.S.O.L.,
Hashim,
kango's stein massive,
Toni Rubio,
Dark Day,
Soul Sonic Force,
New Age Steppers,
Kurtis Blow,
Bad Manners,
Juan Atkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Anthony Braxton,
Alton Ellis,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wire,
Danielle Patucci,
Dawn Penn,
Bluetip,
The Grass Roots,
Flamin' Groovies,
Traffic Nightmare,
Procol Harum,
Kas Product,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Moon,
Smog,
the Sonics,
Slave,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.