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 Monaco and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Dennis Brown to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Fat Boys,
Kerri Chandler,
Josef K,
Section 25,
the Human League,
Silicon Teens,
Janne Schatter,
Michelle Simonal,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultra Naté,
Half Japanese,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pantytec,
Mars,
Ohio Players,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
cv313,
Donald Byrd,
Excepter,
Monks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Massinfluence,
Graham Central Station,
Pole,
Danielle Patucci,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Babytalk,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cluster,
a-ha,
Easy Going,
Bauhaus,
Organ,
Rekid,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ituana,
Guru Guru,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Names,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harmonia,
The Cure,
Flash Fearless,
Idris Muhammad,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Monochrome Set,
Anthony Braxton,
Lungfish,
Scan 7,
Connie Case,
Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Morten Harket,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.