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 Korea South and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
The Grass Roots,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ronan,
Slick Rick,
The Gories,
Faust,
Janne Schatter,
Bang On A Can,
Symarip,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Max Romeo,
Tim Buckley,
Wire,
Gang Starr,
Stereo Dub,
Henry Cow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Guru Guru,
Sixth Finger,
Bill Wells,
Tres Demented,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Subhumans,
Babytalk,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Misunderstood,
Bluetip,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dawn Penn,
Infiniti,
Nik Kershaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Albert Ayler,
Accadde A,
Gerry Rafferty,
Procol Harum,
Swell Maps,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
JFA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Unwound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camouflage,
Shuggie Otis,
Severed Heads,
Roy Ayers,
Whodini,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warsaw,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.