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 Croatia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Schoolly D to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Spandau Ballet,
Franke,
Nirvana,
John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Toni Rubio,
Altered Images,
Funky Four + One,
Thee Headcoats,
Rufus Thomas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nas,
Sight & Sound,
Zero Boys,
Magma,
La Düsseldorf,
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
Carl Craig,
DJ Style,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jacob Miller,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tropical Tobacco,
Derrick May,
Popol Vuh,
Robert Görl,
Flash Fearless,
Outsiders,
Joyce Sims,
Stereo Dub,
Dual Sessions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Terry,
June Days,
Robert Hood,
Deakin,
Sugar Minott,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun Ra,
JFA,
Kenny Larkin,
MC5,
Harmonia,
Gichy Dan,
The Saints,
Cluster,
The Monks,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.