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 Syria and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum 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 Absolute Body Control to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythm & Sound,
Second Layer,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Beau Brummels,
Alton Ellis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Motions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Procol Harum,
Saccharine Trust,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Music Machine,
Infiniti,
Lou Christie,
Cameo,
Tomorrow,
Surgeon,
Yaz,
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Stereo Dub,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sound Behaviour,
Kaleidoscope,
EPMD,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cowsills,
Connie Case,
Slick Rick,
Ludus,
Arthur Verocai,
Kurtis Blow,
Mo-Dettes,
Janne Schatter,
Nirvana,
New Order,
Model 500,
Los Fastidios,
Altered Images,
Yusef Lateef,
Oblivians,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gabor Szabo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Prince Buster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Mandrill,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dirtbombs,
Soft Machine,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mary Jane Girls,
48th St. Collective,
Soul II Soul,
Ice-T,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.