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 China and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Subhumans to the rock 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Au Pairs,
The Mummies,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Gories,
Monolake,
Aural Exciters,
Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
JFA,
the Association,
The New Christs,
LL Cool J,
Lindisfarne,
Youth Brigade,
Vladislav Delay,
Scott Walker,
The J.B.'s,
The Searchers,
Joe Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Minor Threat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Saccharine Trust,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Brothers Johnson,
Kas Product,
Rufus Thomas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Idris Muhammad,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Evens,
Section 25,
Altered Images,
Josef K,
The Cowsills,
Scion,
June of 44,
Make Up,
ABBA,
The Fire Engines,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brick,
The Walker Brothers,
Delta 5,
Accadde A,
Black Flag,
The Dirtbombs,
Sun City Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Subhumans,
Infiniti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yazoo,
Ice-T,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.