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 Liechtenstein and from Portland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Cymande to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
OOIOO,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Christie,
Con Funk Shun,
Agitation Free,
Skriet,
Qualms,
The Star Department,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Japan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
Popol Vuh,
Amon Düül II,
Lindisfarne,
Altered Images,
Liliput,
Das Ding,
Negative Approach,
The Searchers,
Gang Green,
Kaleidoscope,
Second Layer,
The Shadows of Knight,
Faraquet,
Camberwell Now,
Joensuu 1685,
Technova,
Stereo Dub,
Model 500,
Sight & Sound,
Moebius,
UT,
Hot Snakes,
Schoolly D,
The Last Poets,
Pet Shop Boys,
Max Romeo,
Rotary Connection,
Boz Scaggs,
Wire,
Ten City,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Slackers,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Golliwogs,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
Basic Channel,
The Pop Group,
Letta Mbulu,
Brand Nubian,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yusef Lateef,
Zapp,
Animal Collective,
Dave Gahan,
Sonic Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.