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 Bahamas and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Althea and Donna to the grime 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Shuggie Otis,
John Holt,
Alton Ellis,
Sun Ra,
Interpol,
Davy DMX,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nico,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dave Gahan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Monks,
Average White Band,
Lakeside,
Young Marble Giants,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Funky Four + One,
The Remains,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joe Smooth,
D'Angelo,
Kerrie Biddell,
X-102,
Barbara Tucker,
K-Klass,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
48th St. Collective,
Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Television,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tom Boy,
Los Fastidios,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Pus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Monochrome Set,
Alphaville,
Robert Hood,
Joy Division,
The Slackers,
Silicon Teens,
Ronan,
Sister Nancy,
The Young Rascals,
Sight & Sound,
Warsaw,
Quantec,
Visage,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Five Americans,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Procol Harum,
Rites of Spring,
Bobby Byrd,
Dawn Penn,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.