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 Mauritania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 marimba 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 Dennis Brown to the rap 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Glambeats Corp.,
Section 25,
Public Image Ltd.,
Colin Newman,
Mars,
DJ Sneak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
JFA,
Yaz,
Wings,
Hoover,
The Stooges,
Soft Cell,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
PIL,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Metal Thangz,
Lungfish,
The Knickerbockers,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacob Miller,
Alphaville,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Spoonie Gee,
The Alarm Clocks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Archie Shepp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Arcadia,
The Fuzztones,
Bad Manners,
Reagan Youth,
Oneida,
Joe Finger,
Cameo,
MC5,
The Gladiators,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thompson Twins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Byron Stingily,
Scratch Acid,
Janne Schatter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ten City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Aswad,
The Fire Engines,
KRS-One,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Trojans,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.