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 Armenia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the electroclash 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Trumans Water,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
John Cale,
Ituana,
The Litter,
Monks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Byron Stingily,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MDC,
Colin Newman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Buckinghams,
Negative Approach,
One Last Wish,
Swans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
AZ,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Angels of Light,
Tomorrow,
Simply Red,
D'Angelo,
Surgeon,
Bush Tetras,
New York Dolls,
Au Pairs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Raincoats,
Mad Mike,
Livin' Joy,
Pere Ubu,
The Blackbyrds,
Sun Ra,
Bauhaus,
Motorama,
Bluetip,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tommy Roe,
Magazine,
Bobby Sherman,
John Coltrane,
Model 500,
Rakim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roxette,
Dawn Penn,
Stiv Bators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
Faust,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Susan Cadogan,
The Real Kids,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.