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 Syria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
Connie Case,
Theoretical Girls,
Lower 48,
Shoche,
Bobby Byrd,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun City Girls,
Hashim,
Unwound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Cale,
the Fania All-Stars,
Television Personalities,
Unrelated Segments,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Reuben Wilson,
OOIOO,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drexciya,
Camouflage,
Sparks,
The Gladiators,
Y Pants,
Suburban Knight,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Matthew Bourne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Names,
Judy Mowatt,
Deakin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
Ohio Players,
Brick,
Cheater Slicks,
This Heat,
The Stooges,
Ituana,
The Move,
Fad Gadget,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fortunes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Quadrant,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.