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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flipper to the rock 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Prince Buster,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Near,
Kayak,
Franke,
The Associates,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visage,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick May,
UT,
The Cure,
cv313,
Scan 7,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pantaleimon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Offenders,
Yellowson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ornette Coleman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Massinfluence,
Moby Grape,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Tears for Fears,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Byrd,
Fad Gadget,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Animal Collective,
Colin Newman,
Harry Pussy,
Bronski Beat,
Niagra,
DJ Style,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fat Boys,
Liliput,
Glambeats Corp.,
Faust,
The Gap Band,
The Sound,
The Techniques,
Loose Ends,
Reagan Youth,
Sam Rivers,
Icehouse,
Audionom,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dead Boys,
Ossler,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.