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 Namibia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Danielle Patucci to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soul II Soul,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The American Breed,
Buzzcocks,
Arcadia,
Tres Demented,
Rotary Connection,
The Kinks,
OOIOO,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moebius,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cheater Slicks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultravox,
Gong,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cowsills,
Gang Green,
Soft Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cameo,
The Star Department,
The Gladiators,
Prince Buster,
The Remains,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nirvana,
Boogie Down Productions,
DJ Style,
The Invisible,
Charles Mingus,
John Lydon,
Sound Behaviour,
Lightning Bolt,
Jawbox,
Judy Mowatt,
Nas,
Marvin Gaye,
Little Man,
Blake Baxter,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Groovy Waters,
Maurizio,
Flipper,
Harmonia,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Qualms,
Guru Guru,
the Soft Cell,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.