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 Cyprus and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ 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 Hoover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Eli Mardock,
CMW,
China Crisis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brick,
Eric B and Rakim,
Minutemen,
Black Pus,
Kerri Chandler,
Agitation Free,
Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
The Fire Engines,
The Dead C,
Lindisfarne,
The Evens,
The Golliwogs,
Thee Headcoats,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy Collins,
Mantronix,
Roxette,
Goldenarms,
Joensuu 1685,
Au Pairs,
Pole,
Pagans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lalann,
Panda Bear,
Sun Ra,
Technova,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funky Four + One,
Sandy B,
Black Moon,
These Immortal Souls,
MC5,
Hasil Adkins,
Pylon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bauhaus,
Cecil Taylor,
June of 44,
Marc Almond,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fluxion,
Boz Scaggs,
Cheater Slicks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Remains,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grey Daturas,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.