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 Qatar and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scratch Acid to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
48th St. Collective,
Sandy B,
Janne Schatter,
the Germs,
OOIOO,
Sonny Sharrock,
June of 44,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Finger,
Pulsallama,
Rhythm & Sound,
Metal Thangz,
Bush Tetras,
The Moody Blues,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scott Walker,
Malaria!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Selecter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rotary Connection,
Fela Kuti,
Inner City,
Aloha Tigers,
The Golliwogs,
the Normal,
Los Fastidios,
Moss Icon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Television,
Make Up,
AZ,
Young Marble Giants,
H. Thieme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
T. Rex,
Skaos,
Aaron Thompson,
The Blackbyrds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Theoretical Girls,
Harmonia,
Pantaleimon,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ten City,
The Young Rascals,
kango's stein massive,
Can,
Hashim,
John Coltrane,
David Bowie,
Von Mondo,
Cheater Slicks,
Joyce Sims,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.