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 Guyana and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin 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 Quando Quango to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
The Gap Band,
Sällskapet,
Bobby Sherman,
The Kinks,
Hasil Adkins,
The Velvet Underground,
Agent Orange,
Television Personalities,
Zapp,
The Selecter,
Qualms,
Junior Murvin,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
Quadrant,
Oneida,
Das Ding,
Electric Prunes,
Henry Cow,
Minutemen,
Mars,
Unrelated Segments,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Birthday Party,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Radiohead,
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
Talk Talk,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deepchord,
Eddi Front,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Gladiators,
Carl Craig,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grey Daturas,
The Knickerbockers,
Whodini,
Mandrill,
Janne Schatter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Martian,
Isaac Hayes,
Cheater Slicks,
Gabor Szabo,
The Blues Magoos,
K-Klass,
Main Source,
The Leaves,
the Normal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Saccharine Trust,
Ituana,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.