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 Laos and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 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 Glambeats Corp. to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Fluxion,
Gong,
Boz Scaggs,
The Tremeloes,
Don Cherry,
Y Pants,
Liliput,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barrington Levy,
Groovy Waters,
Black Pus,
Minnie Riperton,
Skaos,
Mission of Burma,
Fugazi,
Basic Channel,
Neil Young,
Brothers Johnson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Japan,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Vogues,
Morten Harket,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chrome,
Bang On A Can,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Normal,
John Holt,
The Stooges,
Skarface,
The Electric Prunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Royal Trux,
Rod Modell,
Yaz,
Model 500,
Depeche Mode,
Joyce Sims,
Roxette,
The Litter,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
Amazonics,
Arcadia,
Ken Boothe,
Eli Mardock,
The Count Five,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.