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 Ivory Coast and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 Negative Approach to the techno 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott Heron,
Charles Mingus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Index,
Easy Going,
Camberwell Now,
Nico,
Gang Green,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Audionom,
Model 500,
The Moody Blues,
John Cale,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
kango's stein massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Juan Atkins,
H. Thieme,
Tommy Roe,
Peter & Gordon,
Lyres,
Graham Central Station,
The Remains,
Sonic Youth,
Fad Gadget,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chrome,
Underground Resistance,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Cameo,
the Soft Cell,
Tears for Fears,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry's Kids,
Cecil Taylor,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Todd Rundgren,
Leonard Cohen,
Mo-Dettes,
Mission of Burma,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
Absolute Body Control,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sarah Menescal,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.