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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rod Modell to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tom Boy,
Spoonie Gee,
Idris Muhammad,
Pylon,
Sparks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skriet,
Index,
The Durutti Column,
The Dead C,
Kayak,
Roxy Music,
Scion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thompson Twins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
Brick,
Rotary Connection,
Rosa Yemen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Flash Fearless,
Grey Daturas,
K-Klass,
Marvin Gaye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jacques Brel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
The Smiths,
Faust,
CMW,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Reuben Wilson,
Rites of Spring,
Barrington Levy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marc Almond,
Unrelated Segments,
The Moleskins,
Bang On A Can,
Funkadelic,
Faraquet,
Kurtis Blow,
Mad Mike,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aswad,
Motorama,
Donald Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
The Selecter,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare,
Urselle,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.