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 South Africa and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mission of Burma to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythm & Sound,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Monks,
X-Ray Spex,
Yusef Lateef,
Kayak,
Hasil Adkins,
Intrusion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joyce Sims,
Section 25,
Subhumans,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Barracudas,
Surgeon,
cv313,
Y Pants,
Newcleus,
Depeche Mode,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Bananas,
The New Christs,
Derrick Morgan,
Can,
Brand Nubian,
Parry Music,
Altered Images,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Wyatt,
Angry Samoans,
Jandek,
Maleditus Sound,
The Selecter,
The Zeros,
Dave Gahan,
Reagan Youth,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flipper,
The Sound,
Nas,
Ice-T,
Minnie Riperton,
Pierre Henry,
Cybotron,
Icehouse,
The Black Dice,
Alice Coltrane,
Vainqueur,
Mantronix,
Pylon,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.