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 Equatorial Guinea and from Bologna.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Simply Red to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Shoche,
Dave Gahan,
Ten City,
Faraquet,
Erykah Badu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cheater Slicks,
MC5,
The Standells,
Aloha Tigers,
Marine Girls,
Excepter,
Dual Sessions,
The Happenings,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brothers Johnson,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wasted Youth,
Loose Ends,
Zapp,
Arab on Radar,
The New Christs,
Organ,
The Martian,
Clear Light,
The Music Machine,
Q65,
Joy Division,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agitation Free,
Buzzcocks,
The Residents,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fluxion,
Bronski Beat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
the Swans,
Symarip,
Alton Ellis,
Surgeon,
Technova,
The Gories,
R.M.O.,
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
Circle Jerks,
Lower 48,
KRS-One,
Adolescents,
Maleditus Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.