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 Dominica 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Panda Bear 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Liliput,
Hashim,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
AZ,
Minny Pops,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
10cc,
Nas,
Joy Division,
Eddi Front,
Maurizio,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
E-Dancer,
Grauzone,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Main Source,
Sight & Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Banda Bassotti,
Bluetip,
Soul II Soul,
the Germs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Victims,
Mary Jane Girls,
Unwound,
Morten Harket,
The Associates,
The Fugs,
The Litter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Stooges,
Pole,
Mars,
Colin Newman,
Severed Heads,
Excepter,
MDC,
Black Flag,
Parry Music,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Black Moon,
Aural Exciters,
Harmonia,
David Bowie,
Silicon Teens,
Donald Byrd,
Kas Product,
Bang On A Can,
Ice-T,
Newcleus,
Godley & Creme,
Gichy Dan,
Little Man,
Fugazi,
Terrestrial Tones,
Youth Brigade,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.