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 Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum 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 Bad Manners to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
a-ha,
Newcleus,
Mars,
Nik Kershaw,
Susan Cadogan,
Roxette,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
Don Cherry,
Interpol,
Boredoms,
The Red Krayola,
The Skatalites,
Sound Behaviour,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Womack,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
A Certain Ratio,
The Selecter,
James White and The Blacks,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fuzztones,
Popol Vuh,
China Crisis,
Barry Ungar,
The Angels of Light,
Lalann,
Lucky Dragons,
Sandy B,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bootsy Collins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vladislav Delay,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
Terrestrial Tones,
X-101,
Henry Cow,
Symarip,
Derrick May,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Osbourne,
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
The Index,
Dave Gahan,
Underground Resistance,
Black Bananas,
Ken Boothe,
The Offenders,
Kurtis Blow,
The Seeds,
Nas,
Adolescents,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.