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 Togo and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Massinfluence to the grunge 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
L. Decosne,
Whodini,
Piero Umiliani,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABBA,
Cameo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Smog,
Carl Craig,
Khruangbin,
Colin Newman,
The J.B.'s,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Black Dice,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Anakelly,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers,
Kas Product,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
ABC,
Newcleus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nirvana,
Mo-Dettes,
Amon Düül II,
Arthur Verocai,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Altered Images,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television Personalities,
Don Cherry,
Symarip,
The Move,
Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash,
La Düsseldorf,
Ponytail,
The Dirtbombs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Beau Brummels,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Lydon,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Barbara Tucker,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Style,
Aswad,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.