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 Greece and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Urselle to the jazz 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Essential Logic,
Soul II Soul,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Charles Mingus,
The Monks,
The Zeros,
the Association,
Interpol,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Albert Ayler,
Porter Ricks,
Black Pus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Model 500,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Second Layer,
Whodini,
The Searchers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wire,
LL Cool J,
Audionom,
Metal Thangz,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Brand Nubian,
Letta Mbulu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
Young Marble Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gregory Isaacs,
AZ,
Sarah Menescal,
Saccharine Trust,
Half Japanese,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Maleditus Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Thompson Twins,
Bad Manners,
Sound Behaviour,
Sixth Finger,
Bill Wells,
Flamin' Groovies,
Magma,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roy Ayers,
Jacob Miller,
Sonny Sharrock,
Negative Approach,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monolake,
Ronnie Foster,
Grey Daturas,
Tim Buckley,
Curtis Mayfield,
Television,
Mo-Dettes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.