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 the UAE and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
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 synthesizer 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 Letta Mbulu to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q65,
Eric Copeland,
Man Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Television Personalities,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maleditus Sound,
Visage,
Deadbeat,
The Smoke,
Alphaville,
Crime,
Pantaleimon,
AZ,
Thee Headcoats,
Lebanon Hanover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camouflage,
John Coltrane,
Cluster,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Motorama,
ABC,
Television,
Gang Green,
Gregory Isaacs,
Circle Jerks,
Oblivians,
Pantytec,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
The Residents,
Zapp,
Anthony Braxton,
Minor Threat,
New Order,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Smog,
Gang Starr,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Tremeloes,
Fad Gadget,
The Trojans,
the Association,
June of 44,
Faust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Human League,
Sandy B,
La Düsseldorf,
UT,
The Raincoats,
OOIOO,
The Last Poets,
Ultra Naté,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Delta 5,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.