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 Seychelles and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Juan Atkins to the grime 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Mojo Men,
Lou Reed,
Chris Corsano,
Babytalk,
Jeff Mills,
Aloha Tigers,
The Dead C,
Pantytec,
Malaria!,
Subhumans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Walker Brothers,
Shoche,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
Donny Hathaway,
Camouflage,
Fatback Band,
Colin Newman,
Negative Approach,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
Hasil Adkins,
OOIOO,
The Fugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tim Buckley,
Jesper Dahlback,
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Visage,
Wolf Eyes,
Isaac Hayes,
Rufus Thomas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Man Parrish,
Fluxion,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
Eurythmics,
The Divine Comedy,
Skriet,
Dennis Brown,
Warsaw,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Music Machine,
Black Pus,
The Modern Lovers,
Janne Schatter,
Sonic Youth,
Drexciya,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gichy Dan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.