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 Congo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Desert Stars to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
The Pop Group,
Connie Case,
David Bowie,
Aloha Tigers,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Gap Band,
World's Most,
Johnny Osbourne,
Little Man,
Morten Harket,
The Smiths,
Big Daddy Kane,
John Foxx,
Sun City Girls,
Derrick May,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brick,
Jesper Dahlback,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Y Pants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Average White Band,
Darondo,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker,
Sugar Minott,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Man Parrish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moebius,
Severed Heads,
Skriet,
DJ Style,
Flash Fearless,
Tomorrow,
The Doors,
The Pretty Things,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Sherman,
Marcia Griffiths,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q65,
The Angels of Light,
Shoche,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pantytec,
Harmonia,
The Busters,
Sex Pistols,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terry Callier,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arthur Verocai,
The Mummies,
Moss Icon,
Delta 5,
The Kinks,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.