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 Burkina and from New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lalo Schifrin to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Television Personalities,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kaleidoscope,
Minny Pops,
Visage,
Public Enemy,
Hashim,
The Fall,
Brand Nubian,
The Raincoats,
Radiohead,
Hasil Adkins,
Technova,
The Victims,
Trumans Water,
T.S.O.L.,
Moss Icon,
Sällskapet,
X-102,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ossler,
The Fugs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sparks,
Section 25,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Q65,
Lungfish,
Kurtis Blow,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Association,
The Fuzztones,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Slave,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scrapy,
Minor Threat,
The Selecter,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Motions,
The Sound,
Yellowson,
Soft Cell,
Silicon Teens,
Faraquet,
Moby Grape,
FM Einheit,
Barbara Tucker,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ken Boothe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
MC5,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.