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 South Africa and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Harpers Bizarre to the electroclash 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Junior Murvin,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Busters,
Ohio Players,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Moleskins,
JFA,
Babytalk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funky Four + One,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlback,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Osbourne,
Excepter,
Eric Copeland,
Al Stewart,
Drexciya,
Los Fastidios,
Donny Hathaway,
The Velvet Underground,
Ten City,
Livin' Joy,
Khruangbin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yusef Lateef,
Japan,
The Electric Prunes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dead Boys,
X-101,
Can,
Cybotron,
Brass Construction,
LL Cool J,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Trumans Water,
Outsiders,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
K-Klass,
Donald Byrd,
Sparks,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The American Breed,
The Angels of Light,
Morten Harket,
Pulsallama,
The Leaves,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.