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 Algeria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Aaron Thompson to the rap 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Joe Smooth,
Peter & Gordon,
The Modern Lovers,
Sister Nancy,
Wings,
Laurel Aitken,
The Red Krayola,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
Lucky Dragons,
Wolf Eyes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Desert Stars,
Saccharine Trust,
Inner City,
Ronan,
Ultra Naté,
Interpol,
Deakin,
Matthew Halsall,
James White and The Blacks,
Delta 5,
Jacques Brel,
the Soft Cell,
Gong,
Spandau Ballet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Moby Grape,
MDC,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
UT,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Dolphy,
The New Christs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Urselle,
Icehouse,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Rundgren,
The Young Rascals,
Soul II Soul,
Archie Shepp,
Basic Channel,
Country Teasers,
The Doors,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jandek,
Donald Byrd,
Television,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cluster,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.