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 Andorra and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
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 arpeggiator 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 Shuggie Otis to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Ohio Players,
Warren Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Yazoo,
Sparks,
Groovy Waters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang Gang Dance,
Idris Muhammad,
Roger Hodgson,
Cluster,
Rapeman,
Bobby Sherman,
a-ha,
Newcleus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Albert Ayler,
The Neon Judgement,
ABC,
John Coltrane,
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
FM Einheit,
David McCallum,
Easy Going,
Malaria!,
Letta Mbulu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Pretty Things,
Terrestrial Tones,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
Black Pus,
The Names,
Neu!,
Flipper,
Babytalk,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cecil Taylor,
Barbara Tucker,
Chrome,
D'Angelo,
Roy Ayers,
Ludus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pantytec,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.