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 Benin and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Donald Fagen 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 Johnny Clarke to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Cymande,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sparks,
Eric B and Rakim,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bluetip,
Section 25,
Iggy Pop,
FM Einheit,
Soul II Soul,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jandek,
The Leaves,
David Axelrod,
Eddi Front,
The Happenings,
Television,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül II,
Prince Buster,
Trumans Water,
The Beau Brummels,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quando Quango,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cure,
Harmonia,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Wake,
Franke,
Sonic Youth,
Underground Resistance,
Smog,
Connie Case,
Rufus Thomas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roger Hodgson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terry Callier,
Schoolly D,
Crooked Eye,
Symarip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young,
The Names,
Pylon,
Anthony Braxton,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
Index,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.