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 Fiji and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Morten Harket to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Letta Mbulu,
Toni Rubio,
Alton Ellis,
Thee Headcoats,
These Immortal Souls,
DJ Sneak,
Black Sheep,
Joensuu 1685,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
Rotary Connection,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
The Doors,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
B.T. Express,
cv313,
Lyres,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Mummies,
Kaleidoscope,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Cymande,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
World's Most,
DJ Style,
Flash Fearless,
PIL,
The Gap Band,
The Searchers,
Donny Hathaway,
Rakim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Glenn Branca,
Eric B and Rakim,
CMW,
The Saints,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Alphaville,
The Grass Roots,
The Techniques,
48th St. Collective,
Scratch Acid,
Interpol,
Sonic Youth,
Byron Stingily,
The Detroit Cobras,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
Surgeon,
10cc,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.