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 Dominica and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Sexual Harrassment to the rock 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Womack,
The Barracudas,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erykah Badu,
New York Dolls,
Groovy Waters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Main Source,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
Man Parrish,
the Normal,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Fuzztones,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Smiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Angry Samoans,
KRS-One,
Andrew Hill,
Heaven 17,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Zeros,
Gang Gang Dance,
UT,
Josef K,
Cluster,
Quantec,
Siglo XX,
Organ,
Black Flag,
Blake Baxter,
The Grass Roots,
Don Cherry,
The Kinks,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Walker Brothers,
Faust,
Jandek,
Kenny Larkin,
Nils Olav,
Stiv Bators,
Blancmange,
Brass Construction,
Scion,
Ronan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cal Tjader,
Quadrant,
These Immortal Souls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Halsall,
Oblivians,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.