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 Romania and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Idris Muhammad to the techno 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ken Boothe,
Junior Murvin,
The Selecter,
The Knickerbockers,
Bootsy Collins,
Kas Product,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
Cal Tjader,
Wally Richardson,
Byron Stingily,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
The Monks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
48th St. Collective,
The Human League,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radiohead,
Negative Approach,
Tommy Roe,
Camberwell Now,
Iggy Pop,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
Pulsallama,
Outsiders,
Minnie Riperton,
Rakim,
The Victims,
Blossom Toes,
The Smoke,
Spandau Ballet,
The Skatalites,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Motorama,
Matthew Halsall,
Fat Boys,
New Order,
Max Romeo,
The Tremeloes,
The American Breed,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Certain Ratio,
June of 44,
The Happenings,
Ronan,
Minor Threat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Donny Hathaway,
Interpol,
Delta 5,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.