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 Djibouti and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Gregory Isaacs to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Easy Going,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Sex Pistols,
Grandmaster Flash,
Al Stewart,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eurythmics,
Theoretical Girls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Saints,
Stiv Bators,
Fad Gadget,
Janne Schatter,
Sun Ra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deadbeat,
Spandau Ballet,
R.M.O.,
Fugazi,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Heaven 17,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mad Mike,
Country Teasers,
Eli Mardock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hardrive,
Kenny Larkin,
Smog,
Don Cherry,
Anakelly,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jeru the Damaja,
Terry Callier,
Half Japanese,
Letta Mbulu,
Fatback Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mark Hollis,
Maurizio,
Matthew Bourne,
Scan 7,
Black Flag,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-Ray Spex,
Barrington Levy,
Arcadia,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.