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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moebius to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 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 synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
Funkadelic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Yusef Lateef,
10cc,
Infiniti,
Audionom,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash,
Andrew Hill,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Shoche,
Jacob Miller,
The J.B.'s,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Cell,
The Walker Brothers,
These Immortal Souls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alton Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
Tres Demented,
Tom Boy,
Skarface,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kerrie Biddell,
F. McDonald,
New York Dolls,
Peter and Kerry,
Icehouse,
The Doors,
MC5,
Harry Pussy,
Young Marble Giants,
Slick Rick,
Unrelated Segments,
Public Enemy,
Thee Headcoats,
Lindisfarne,
Agitation Free,
Dave Gahan,
Animal Collective,
Section 25,
Rites of Spring,
The Saints,
Black Flag,
June Days,
Agent Orange,
Arcadia,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Electric Prunes,
Flipper,
Smog,
Patti Smith,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.