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 United Kingdom and from London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Main Source to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Last Poets,
Camouflage,
Easy Going,
Eve St. Jones,
One Last Wish,
the Bar-Kays,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
OOIOO,
Josef K,
Television,
Juan Atkins,
Jeff Lynne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Subhumans,
Anthony Braxton,
Sugar Minott,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echospace,
Fad Gadget,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Quadrant,
Dead Boys,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Slick Rick,
the Normal,
Steve Hackett,
The Victims,
Thompson Twins,
Hasil Adkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Public Enemy,
Cecil Taylor,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Connie Case,
The Happenings,
Sight & Sound,
The Count Five,
Sound Behaviour,
The Electric Prunes,
Bad Manners,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lakeside,
Ohio Players,
The Misunderstood,
Derrick Morgan,
The Music Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
Crime,
Aaron Thompson,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.