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 Botswana and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes 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 Judy Mowatt to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
James White and The Blacks,
Howard Jones,
Ohio Players,
Public Image Ltd.,
Magma,
Sight & Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
kango's stein massive,
Half Japanese,
Rapeman,
Fluxion,
Dawn Penn,
The Cowsills,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Index,
Nirvana,
D'Angelo,
Panda Bear,
Cybotron,
Tomorrow,
Von Mondo,
Josef K,
Shoche,
Soul II Soul,
The Residents,
Rites of Spring,
Gang Gang Dance,
Inner City,
Yusef Lateef,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Neon Judgement,
The Selecter,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Human League,
Aloha Tigers,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Kinks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Human League,
Chris Corsano,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oneida,
the Normal,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lower 48,
The Real Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warren Ellis,
The Gap Band,
Morten Harket,
The Blackbyrds,
Dennis Brown,
Jawbox,
UT,
Main Source,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.