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 Malawi and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
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 chamberlin 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
The Victims,
Quando Quango,
The Dead C,
Janne Schatter,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Kayak,
Todd Terry,
Flash Fearless,
Dead Boys,
The Cramps,
Man Parrish,
The Last Poets,
Bill Wells,
Soft Machine,
Kerri Chandler,
James White and The Blacks,
Thee Headcoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiopuhelimet,
Deepchord,
The Blackbyrds,
Amon Düül,
Aaron Thompson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hardrive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Whodini,
F. McDonald,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Residents,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
UT,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
The Saints,
U.S. Maple,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Zeros,
Youth Brigade,
Roger Hodgson,
Reuben Wilson,
Albert Ayler,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare,
Archie Shepp,
Sound Behaviour,
Loose Ends,
D'Angelo,
Alice Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June of 44,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vainqueur,
K-Klass,
Moebius,
Popol Vuh,
Maleditus Sound,
Traffic Nightmare,
Thompson Twins,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.