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 Maldives and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Circle Jerks to the funk 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funkadelic,
The Motions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gladiators,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Wells,
Circle Jerks,
The Trojans,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kurtis Blow,
Eddi Front,
The Five Americans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks,
Niagra,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Index,
Japan,
Minor Threat,
Colin Newman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Birthday Party,
The Blues Magoos,
The Zeros,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed,
Bush Tetras,
Little Man,
Lindisfarne,
Accadde A,
D'Angelo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Martian,
Second Layer,
Bootsy Collins,
Donald Byrd,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantaleimon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Babytalk,
MC5,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
Todd Rundgren,
Iggy Pop,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.