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 Israel and from Spokane.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ohio Players to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brothers Johnson,
Alton Ellis,
Massinfluence,
Average White Band,
Au Pairs,
Country Teasers,
Lalann,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
The Doors,
Fifty Foot Hose,
In Retrospect,
Aswad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
E-Dancer,
Banda Bassotti,
Theoretical Girls,
Japan,
June Days,
Sugar Minott,
Cluster,
Minutemen,
The Kinks,
Porter Ricks,
Sarah Menescal,
Chrome,
Los Fastidios,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Starr,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Electric Prunes,
The Tremeloes,
Aural Exciters,
John Foxx,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crooked Eye,
Absolute Body Control,
Big Daddy Kane,
Qualms,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Goldenarms,
Gang of Four,
Kaleidoscope,
Tubeway Army,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hoover,
Arab on Radar,
Severed Heads,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gun Club,
Toni Rubio,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Standells,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Warren Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pussy Galore,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Music Machine,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.