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 Montenegro and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Marcia Griffiths to the funk 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
FM Einheit,
Average White Band,
cv313,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra,
The Gories,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Green,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Raincoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Bananas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bob Dylan,
Roy Ayers,
Sonic Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
Panda Bear,
Junior Murvin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Last Poets,
Ituana,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Zero Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Audionom,
The Red Krayola,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stereo Dub,
Sonny Sharrock,
Goldenarms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Copeland,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delta 5,
Pulsallama,
Connie Case,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma,
Smog,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Skatalites,
Unwound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Duran Duran,
Robert Hood,
Frankie Knuckles,
Magazine,
Newcleus,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Womack,
Max Romeo,
Faraquet,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.