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 Macedonia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord 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 New York Dolls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Hood,
The Techniques,
Bad Manners,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harry Pussy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Niagra,
The Monks,
Henry Cow,
Black Sheep,
Danielle Patucci,
Fat Boys,
The Five Americans,
Brothers Johnson,
The Young Rascals,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Flash Fearless,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
Sound Behaviour,
Don Cherry,
Laurel Aitken,
Sexual Harrassment,
Alton Ellis,
The Doors,
The Last Poets,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dennis Brown,
Stetsasonic,
Rakim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Interpol,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cure,
Skarface,
Scientists,
The Angels of Light,
Bush Tetras,
The Electric Prunes,
kango's stein massive,
Skriet,
Nik Kershaw,
Maleditus Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
Nico,
Siglo XX,
Alice Coltrane,
The Motions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scott Walker,
Amazonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thompson Twins,
Black Moon,
UT,
Josef K,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.