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 Ghana and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Frankie Knuckles to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Style,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barrington Levy,
Main Source,
LL Cool J,
Cecil Taylor,
Popol Vuh,
Eden Ahbez,
Rakim,
Ronnie Foster,
The Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Womack,
Fela Kuti,
The Fugs,
Freddie Wadling,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Jesper Dahlback,
Anakelly,
Kool Moe Dee,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Little Man,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Khruangbin,
Lakeside,
The Electric Prunes,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The New Christs,
Cameo,
Funkadelic,
Tubeway Army,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
DJ Sneak,
the Sonics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Albert Ayler,
The Litter,
Oneida,
Hot Snakes,
Howard Jones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Eating Sloth,
AZ,
The Saints,
Deepchord,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Porter Ricks,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Blues Magoos,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moss Icon,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.