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 Palau and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum 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 Arthur Verocai to the jazz 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Ice-T,
Livin' Joy,
Von Mondo,
Quadrant,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jawbox,
Young Marble Giants,
Scrapy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Star Department,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Womack,
Ralphi Rosario,
Andrew Hill,
Fear,
Laurel Aitken,
Prince Buster,
Royal Trux,
Thompson Twins,
The Slackers,
Moby Grape,
The Searchers,
Cecil Taylor,
Derrick May,
Terry Callier,
Ituana,
The Trojans,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl,
The Martian,
The Cramps,
Rotary Connection,
Dorothy Ashby,
Banda Bassotti,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scan 7,
The Slits,
Deepchord,
The Smiths,
Pet Shop Boys,
Monks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bob Dylan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eli Mardock,
Dennis Brown,
Angry Samoans,
The Pop Group,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Heaven 17,
The Fortunes,
The Motions,
the Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.