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 Luxembourg and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Inner City to the funk 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mo-Dettes,
Juan Atkins,
Mars,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Y Pants,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joe Finger,
The Fortunes,
Smog,
The Music Machine,
Basic Channel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronnie Foster,
Thompson Twins,
Scion,
The Gladiators,
Maurizio,
Carl Craig,
Subhumans,
EPMD,
Nirvana,
Howard Jones,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Flipper,
Oneida,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Amon Düül II,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Names,
Sonny Sharrock,
Faust,
Agitation Free,
The Barracudas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alton Ellis,
Mad Mike,
Monolake,
the Soft Cell,
Arcadia,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Yaz,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Easy Going,
Vainqueur,
The Star Department,
Niagra,
Godley & Creme,
The Move,
Kas Product,
Barrington Levy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.