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 Peru and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 A Certain Ratio to the crunk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Whodini,
Cecil Taylor,
Silicon Teens,
the Soft Cell,
Audionom,
Suicide,
Joey Negro,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rites of Spring,
Scientists,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Misunderstood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Matthew Bourne,
Joy Division,
Qualms,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Black Moon,
Little Man,
Pantytec,
Matthew Halsall,
Crash Course in Science,
U.S. Maple,
Warsaw,
Interpol,
Todd Terry,
Laurel Aitken,
a-ha,
Minutemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unrelated Segments,
Altered Images,
The Modern Lovers,
Graham Central Station,
The Birthday Party,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Cramps,
The Grass Roots,
Davy DMX,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Brothers Johnson,
New Age Steppers,
Simply Red,
Neil Young,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Babytalk,
Sight & Sound,
Camouflage,
Neu!,
Lucky Dragons,
Althea and Donna,
Bootsy Collins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
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.