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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Ponytail to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Basic Channel,
Fad Gadget,
Kurtis Blow,
Johnny Clarke,
Mantronix,
the Association,
Brass Construction,
B.T. Express,
Neu!,
Roxy Music,
The J.B.'s,
Yaz,
Depeche Mode,
Hardrive,
Deakin,
Maurizio,
Joe Finger,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Guru Guru,
Wally Richardson,
Grey Daturas,
Juan Atkins,
Pierre Henry,
Tomorrow,
Sound Behaviour,
The Detroit Cobras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barry Ungar,
Kenny Larkin,
Crooked Eye,
Jacques Brel,
Q65,
Marshall Jefferson,
Can,
Rosa Yemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
David Bowie,
Young Marble Giants,
Marcia Griffiths,
Con Funk Shun,
Harmonia,
Eli Mardock,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mission of Burma,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eddi Front,
Loose Ends,
Lungfish,
Kaleidoscope,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Green,
F. McDonald,
Sister Nancy,
La Düsseldorf,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eve St. Jones,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Five Americans,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.