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 Eritrea and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
The Misunderstood,
The Gun Club,
Cymande,
Theoretical Girls,
Blossom Toes,
Grey Daturas,
Soft Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Eli Mardock,
The Birthday Party,
World's Most,
Bill Near,
The Wake,
Sparks,
Josef K,
Toni Rubio,
Barbara Tucker,
The Tremeloes,
James White and The Blacks,
The Residents,
Tommy Roe,
Ornette Coleman,
Junior Murvin,
Vladislav Delay,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Carl Craig,
Bang On A Can,
EPMD,
Procol Harum,
E-Dancer,
Delta 5,
X-Ray Spex,
Moebius,
The Move,
Adolescents,
Eddi Front,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arcadia,
Traffic Nightmare,
Camouflage,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Liliput,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
kango's stein massive,
Nik Kershaw,
Massinfluence,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chrome,
Bootsy Collins,
Ronan,
Siglo XX,
Average White Band,
Byron Stingily,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Quadrant,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.