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 Nepal and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 PIL to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Soul II Soul,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nirvana,
Bobby Womack,
Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ice-T,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed,
Radio Birdman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Bananas,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
T. Rex,
the Normal,
Siglo XX,
Minutemen,
Masters at Work,
June Days,
Severed Heads,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Electric Prunes,
X-Ray Spex,
JFA,
Eric Copeland,
Agent Orange,
K-Klass,
Todd Terry,
John Holt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rotary Connection,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Reuben Wilson,
Yusef Lateef,
Ornette Coleman,
The Human League,
Eurythmics,
Qualms,
Q65,
Desert Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Max Romeo,
Duran Duran,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Busters,
Barrington Levy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cal Tjader,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Janne Schatter,
Scratch Acid,
Dark Day,
Byron Stingily,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.