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 Zambia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Jesper Dahlback to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stereo Dub,
Lebanon Hanover,
R.M.O.,
Television Personalities,
Robert Görl,
Depeche Mode,
The Fortunes,
Cheater Slicks,
Metal Thangz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Beau Brummels,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drexciya,
Brass Construction,
Skarface,
Country Teasers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crime,
Scratch Acid,
X-101,
The Motions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Franke,
Flash Fearless,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pharoah Sanders,
E-Dancer,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Surgeon,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
the Germs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Derrick May,
Donald Byrd,
L. Decosne,
Dual Sessions,
Radiohead,
Sugar Minott,
June of 44,
The Mummies,
Blake Baxter,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Junior Murvin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eli Mardock,
Guru Guru,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erykah Badu,
Maleditus Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.