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 Portland.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar 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 Charles Mingus to the techno 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
Deepchord,
JFA,
Wings,
Magazine,
Morten Harket,
Porter Ricks,
Spandau Ballet,
Faust,
10cc,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Golliwogs,
The Sonics,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeff Lynne,
D'Angelo,
Terry Callier,
Michelle Simonal,
Lucky Dragons,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
World's Most,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alton Ellis,
ABBA,
Scion,
The Mojo Men,
Whodini,
KRS-One,
B.T. Express,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rapeman,
Roy Ayers,
Black Pus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nas,
Pantytec,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Erykah Badu,
This Heat,
Joe Smooth,
The New Christs,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Davy DMX,
Severed Heads,
Bang On A Can,
Ornette Coleman,
John Lydon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
8 Eyed Spy,
China Crisis,
Ken Boothe,
PIL,
Rod Modell,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.