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 Peru and from New York.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ronan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Agitation Free,
Schoolly D,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arthur Verocai,
KRS-One,
Ronnie Foster,
The Neon Judgement,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wings,
The Monks,
Adolescents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scientists,
Goldenarms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Al Stewart,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Byrd,
Lucky Dragons,
the Germs,
Dave Gahan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
This Heat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Spoonie Gee,
Lower 48,
the Normal,
Jeff Mills,
Lightning Bolt,
Loose Ends,
The Fire Engines,
Lee Hazlewood,
Youth Brigade,
World's Most,
Lindisfarne,
Peter & Gordon,
Symarip,
DJ Style,
Shuggie Otis,
The Blackbyrds,
X-Ray Spex,
Circle Jerks,
Stereo Dub,
Warren Ellis,
Pussy Galore,
Skarface,
Reuben Wilson,
The Grass Roots,
New York Dolls,
The Techniques,
Lungfish,
Little Man,
Deepchord,
Ultra Naté,
Michelle Simonal,
Iggy Pop,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.