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 Equatorial Guinea and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the dance 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Tom Boy,
Skaos,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
The Names,
Glambeats Corp.,
T. Rex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry's Kids,
Juan Atkins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Second Layer,
Danielle Patucci,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barbara Tucker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Techniques,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Con Funk Shun,
Y Pants,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yusef Lateef,
Boz Scaggs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spoonie Gee,
Henry Cow,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cure,
Nick Fraelich,
Motorama,
the Normal,
Trumans Water,
Cluster,
ABC,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Maurizio,
The Music Machine,
Yaz,
Judy Mowatt,
The Wake,
FM Einheit,
John Foxx,
Mo-Dettes,
Laurel Aitken,
The Five Americans,
Ultravox,
Young Marble Giants,
Albert Ayler,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.