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 Azerbaijan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 Zero Boys to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
The Selecter,
Warren Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Juan Atkins,
Johnny Clarke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lungfish,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rotary Connection,
The Sonics,
T. Rex,
Arcadia,
Depeche Mode,
Lucky Dragons,
Peter & Gordon,
Max Romeo,
David Bowie,
Pagans,
Tomorrow,
the Soft Cell,
The Walker Brothers,
Crime,
Joy Division,
Bob Dylan,
Mad Mike,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Funkadelic,
Robert Wyatt,
EPMD,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Henry Cow,
Angry Samoans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Raincoats,
Sällskapet,
The Zeros,
Spoonie Gee,
Khruangbin,
Harry Pussy,
Con Funk Shun,
Girls At Our Best!,
Curtis Mayfield,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tears for Fears,
Swell Maps,
Gabor Szabo,
The Count Five,
Amon Düül II,
Funky Four + One,
Clear Light,
Byron Stingily,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Shoche,
Rekid,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.