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 Sweden and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Michael McDonald 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 Faust to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
La Düsseldorf,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Terry,
Chris Corsano,
Ultravox,
a-ha,
The Sound,
L. Decosne,
The Mummies,
Juan Atkins,
Roy Ayers,
Unrelated Segments,
Albert Ayler,
The Durutti Column,
Rufus Thomas,
Yazoo,
The Kinks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skaos,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scott Walker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barrington Levy,
The Move,
Pussy Galore,
Erykah Badu,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Clarke,
Lucky Dragons,
Niagra,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bluetip,
Scientists,
World's Most,
Hoover,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
The Five Americans,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Normal,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Mills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scratch Acid,
Dual Sessions,
Underground Resistance,
Hardrive,
Ronnie Foster,
Slave,
Sister Nancy,
Chris & Cosey,
The Happenings,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Heaven 17,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.