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 Chile and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
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 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
The Moody Blues,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Durutti Column,
The Star Department,
Von Mondo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Magma,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Swans,
David McCallum,
Ronan,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minny Pops,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
Mandrill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quando Quango,
The Associates,
Maurizio,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gun Club,
CMW,
the Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
The Angels of Light,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Los Fastidios,
David Bowie,
Shoche,
Alison Limerick,
Ken Boothe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Blues Magoos,
Stetsasonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marvin Gaye,
Stiv Bators,
Echospace,
Funkadelic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Max Romeo,
Crime,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
The Fire Engines,
John Foxx,
The Count Five,
Suburban Knight,
The Vogues,
MDC,
Brass Construction,
K-Klass,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Sherman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.