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 Korea South and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Interpol to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 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 Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Techniques,
Technova,
Fear,
AZ,
Ken Boothe,
The Durutti Column,
Tom Boy,
China Crisis,
The Kinks,
Amon Düül II,
The Walker Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
Siglo XX,
Derrick May,
Aaron Thompson,
Michelle Simonal,
Tommy Roe,
The Angels of Light,
Alice Coltrane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Bar-Kays,
Aswad,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash,
Y Pants,
DJ Sneak,
Fela Kuti,
Gastr Del Sol,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scott Walker,
Johnny Clarke,
Barrington Levy,
The Moleskins,
The Fortunes,
Amon Düül,
Can,
Quando Quango,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Connie Case,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sixth Finger,
The Smiths,
Susan Cadogan,
Massinfluence,
Bill Wells,
Yaz,
Kurtis Blow,
Jeru the Damaja,
Max Romeo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Urselle,
Fluxion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funky Four + One,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.