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 India and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Silicon Teens to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Von Mondo,
Fela Kuti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Porter Ricks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rotary Connection,
Arab on Radar,
The Modern Lovers,
Saccharine Trust,
John Cale,
Robert Wyatt,
Banda Bassotti,
Soul II Soul,
The Golliwogs,
The Moleskins,
Average White Band,
Magma,
Surgeon,
Bad Manners,
Pulsallama,
Supertramp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fugazi,
Adolescents,
Drive Like Jehu,
Intrusion,
D'Angelo,
Faraquet,
Funkadelic,
Malaria!,
Roy Ayers,
Davy DMX,
Reagan Youth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chris & Cosey,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Franke,
The Sound,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stiv Bators,
Hoover,
The Misunderstood,
Lower 48,
The Monks,
Joensuu 1685,
Organ,
Warren Ellis,
The Associates,
MDC,
Aswad,
The Litter,
The Real Kids,
The Young Rascals,
Black Moon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Popol Vuh,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.