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 Guatemala and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 arpeggiator 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 Pylon to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
The Fall,
Sonic Youth,
Monks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Agent Orange,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Main Source,
In Retrospect,
JFA,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
MDC,
Pulsallama,
Joensuu 1685,
Q and Not U,
Harpers Bizarre,
Minor Threat,
Mark Hollis,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Victims,
Barry Ungar,
Slick Rick,
Lakeside,
Steve Hackett,
Tubeway Army,
The Smiths,
Dual Sessions,
Black Moon,
Arcadia,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pere Ubu,
Talk Talk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alton Ellis,
The United States of America,
Idris Muhammad,
Hasil Adkins,
Suicide,
Urselle,
John Coltrane,
Gang of Four,
Marc Almond,
The Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas,
Make Up,
Das Ding,
Jeff Lynne,
Eli Mardock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camberwell Now,
Brass Construction,
Kerri Chandler,
Reuben Wilson,
Al Stewart,
The Raincoats,
Skaos,
Pantytec,
Intrusion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.