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 Mauritius and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin 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 Little Man to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Agitation Free,
Reagan Youth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Style,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronan,
Dave Gahan,
The Moody Blues,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thompson Twins,
Blossom Toes,
Idris Muhammad,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brothers Johnson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Warren Ellis,
Minutemen,
Ituana,
The J.B.'s,
Swell Maps,
Adolescents,
Wally Richardson,
Jeff Mills,
Crash Course in Science,
X-102,
Black Sheep,
Minny Pops,
Pulsallama,
Erasure,
FM Einheit,
The Mummies,
EPMD,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brass Construction,
Cameo,
Fad Gadget,
The Human League,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ice-T,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fire Engines,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Joe Finger,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bluetip,
Moss Icon,
Faraquet,
Hoover,
In Retrospect,
Scientists,
Darondo,
James White and The Blacks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Iggy Pop,
Circle Jerks,
Main Source,
Echospace,
This Heat,
Mars,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.