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 China and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Joyce Sims to the grunge 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Donny Hathaway,
The Mummies,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers,
The Misunderstood,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fugazi,
Aural Exciters,
Colin Newman,
The Vogues,
The Fugs,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Bourne,
Scott Walker,
Skarface,
Ultra Naté,
10cc,
Charles Mingus,
Television,
The Music Machine,
cv313,
Basic Channel,
Stetsasonic,
The Cure,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tres Demented,
The Neon Judgement,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Associates,
X-Ray Spex,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sandy B,
Gang Starr,
Crime,
John Cale,
Arcadia,
Inner City,
Tomorrow,
Alice Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Raincoats,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hardrive,
Accadde A,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wire,
Symarip,
Lyres,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deakin,
Con Funk Shun,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
David Bowie,
Pantaleimon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.