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 Suriname and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Easy Going to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Tears for Fears,
The Raincoats,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Amazonics,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Sheep,
The Fuzztones,
Quando Quango,
John Coltrane,
June Days,
The Kinks,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Byrd,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Zeros,
Gang of Four,
Sparks,
Sugar Minott,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Hardrive,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jawbox,
Crime,
Kayak,
Sixth Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
The Gap Band,
Archie Shepp,
Ossler,
Patti Smith,
Rites of Spring,
The Fortunes,
Moss Icon,
Ronan,
Glenn Branca,
DNA,
Electric Prunes,
X-Ray Spex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Trojans,
Minnie Riperton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
D'Angelo,
Talk Talk,
Howard Jones,
T.S.O.L.,
Khruangbin,
The Motions,
DJ Sneak,
Tres Demented,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Flesh Eaters,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.