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 Niger and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rotary Connection to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Eric Copeland,
The Black Dice,
Sight & Sound,
The Pretty Things,
Chrome,
Vladislav Delay,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Associates,
Flash Fearless,
The Buckinghams,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Style,
Tom Boy,
One Last Wish,
Derrick Morgan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deadbeat,
Boredoms,
10cc,
Matthew Halsall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlback,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
The Invisible,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fortunes,
Lalann,
Tommy Roe,
The Gun Club,
John Coltrane,
Alison Limerick,
The Trojans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Al Stewart,
Procol Harum,
Sandy B,
The Alarm Clocks,
Q and Not U,
Ornette Coleman,
Circle Jerks,
The Star Department,
Quadrant,
Darondo,
Scion,
Ultravox,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sister Nancy,
Japan,
Reagan Youth,
Lyres,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anakelly,
Tres Demented,
Slick Rick,
Maleditus Sound,
Bluetip,
Cybotron,
Minnie Riperton,
PIL,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.