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 Denmark and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Foxx to the jazz 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
the Human League,
Drexciya,
Kevin Saunderson,
Masters at Work,
Radiohead,
Ken Boothe,
Jawbox,
Pagans,
Shoche,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Intrusion,
Inner City,
Buzzcocks,
UT,
The Sound,
The Martian,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
Carl Craig,
Television Personalities,
CMW,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Maurizio,
Nation of Ulysses,
Brothers Johnson,
Rod Modell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joe Finger,
Skriet,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Neon Judgement,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Associates,
Kayak,
New Age Steppers,
Fad Gadget,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jerry's Kids,
Avey Tare,
Funky Four + One,
Chrome,
Anthony Braxton,
Matthew Bourne,
The Motions,
Fluxion,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marvin Gaye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Unrelated Segments,
Toni Rubio,
Technova,
The Residents,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.