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 Congo and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grime 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ponytail,
Aaron Thompson,
Kenny Larkin,
Japan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yazoo,
A Certain Ratio,
The Blues Magoos,
Barbara Tucker,
The Move,
Nico,
Fad Gadget,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delta 5,
The Wake,
Archie Shepp,
Vainqueur,
Crash Course in Science,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Isaac Hayes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amon Düül,
The Durutti Column,
The Motions,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Albert Ayler,
Oneida,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Angels of Light,
James White and The Blacks,
Surgeon,
Joyce Sims,
The Alarm Clocks,
PIL,
Scion,
Groovy Waters,
Joensuu 1685,
Franke,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kerri Chandler,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fela Kuti,
Altered Images,
Monks,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers,
The Index,
Das Ding,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.