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 Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Dark Day to the rock 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
Boredoms,
DJ Sneak,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Nils Olav,
Boz Scaggs,
Sugar Minott,
Q and Not U,
Scientists,
Roxy Music,
Ronnie Foster,
The Walker Brothers,
Massinfluence,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camberwell Now,
KRS-One,
Howard Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joyce Sims,
One Last Wish,
Letta Mbulu,
Dark Day,
the Swans,
The Remains,
Basic Channel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
James White and The Blacks,
The Techniques,
The Gun Club,
Desert Stars,
Lalann,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scratch Acid,
Lindisfarne,
The Move,
The Tremeloes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
MDC,
Stockholm Monsters,
These Immortal Souls,
Piero Umiliani,
Rakim,
Quadrant,
H. Thieme,
Eric Copeland,
Roger Hodgson,
the Bar-Kays,
The Real Kids,
Iggy Pop,
Severed Heads,
Pantytec,
The Selecter,
Metal Thangz,
Marmalade,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.