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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
kango's stein massive,
Kas Product,
New Age Steppers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mars,
Joe Smooth,
Grauzone,
Bad Manners,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Unrelated Segments,
Monks,
The Searchers,
Zapp,
Scan 7,
Althea and Donna,
Todd Terry,
Hardrive,
Second Layer,
Ultravox,
Mandrill,
Sällskapet,
The Selecter,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Bourne,
the Sonics,
Tubeway Army,
Colin Newman,
Agitation Free,
Quantec,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Cale,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Junior Murvin,
Kurtis Blow,
Glenn Branca,
The Black Dice,
KRS-One,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
Circle Jerks,
Donny Hathaway,
Liliput,
Piero Umiliani,
Roy Ayers,
Janne Schatter,
ABC,
Robert Wyatt,
the Bar-Kays,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
LL Cool J,
John Lydon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.