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 Botswana and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Stereo Dub to the funk 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Brass Construction,
Symarip,
David Axelrod,
AZ,
Ronan,
Hoover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
Delta 5,
Dawn Penn,
Hashim,
Jimmy McGriff,
Inner City,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
K-Klass,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang Starr,
The New Christs,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy Collins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Massinfluence,
Maurizio,
The Cure,
Lower 48,
Pussy Galore,
The Leaves,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Peter and Kerry,
Sun Ra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
cv313,
Barbara Tucker,
Agent Orange,
Althea and Donna,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Ten City,
Au Pairs,
Negative Approach,
Bang On A Can,
The Moody Blues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
E-Dancer,
Eden Ahbez,
Infiniti,
Lindisfarne,
The Raincoats,
Procol Harum,
The Angels of Light,
The J.B.'s,
Todd Rundgren,
Essential Logic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.