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 Comoros and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Michael McDonald 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 Soft Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brass Construction,
The Pop Group,
Brothers Johnson,
Hashim,
The Grass Roots,
Junior Murvin,
Cymande,
Can,
Todd Rundgren,
Joe Smooth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Infiniti,
New Age Steppers,
Deadbeat,
The Litter,
Alison Limerick,
Rhythm & Sound,
Carl Craig,
8 Eyed Spy,
Glenn Branca,
Quadrant,
Eddi Front,
Trumans Water,
Clear Light,
MC5,
Gang of Four,
Easy Going,
Bob Dylan,
The Gap Band,
Underground Resistance,
Judy Mowatt,
Thee Headcoats,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott Heron,
Franke,
Faust,
The American Breed,
Reuben Wilson,
Altered Images,
Gang Green,
Neil Young,
Joey Negro,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
PIL,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
Hasil Adkins,
Aswad,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Radiohead,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dawn Penn,
Rapeman,
Masters at Work,
Second Layer,
Kerrie Biddell,
Magazine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DJ Style,
Scan 7,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.