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 San Marino and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk 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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Yellowson,
ABC,
Pierre Henry,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Niagra,
Con Funk Shun,
Bronski Beat,
Donny Hathaway,
Von Mondo,
Faust,
Neu!,
The Blues Magoos,
The Dead C,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Tom Boy,
Dual Sessions,
Bauhaus,
The Raincoats,
Roxy Music,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
Susan Cadogan,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Max Romeo,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roger Hodgson,
The Beau Brummels,
Popol Vuh,
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Sherman,
X-Ray Spex,
Man Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Infiniti,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jandek,
Brass Construction,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Motions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
This Heat,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Starr,
The Doors,
Los Fastidios,
The Angels of Light,
Eden Ahbez,
The Litter,
Youth Brigade,
Moss Icon,
Fluxion,
Ituana,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.