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 Jamaica and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe 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 snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Matthew Bourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tubeway Army,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Roy Ayers,
Electric Prunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wire,
Schoolly D,
The J.B.'s,
Rapeman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
Second Layer,
X-Ray Spex,
Ponytail,
Graham Central Station,
10cc,
The Stooges,
Gong,
The Misunderstood,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fortunes,
Rotary Connection,
The Remains,
Circle Jerks,
Motorama,
Ten City,
Ultravox,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
DNA,
Japan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Basic Channel,
Au Pairs,
Sight & Sound,
Eurythmics,
Funky Four + One,
Depeche Mode,
Faraquet,
In Retrospect,
Mandrill,
Organ,
The Searchers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cheater Slicks,
Outsiders,
Youth Brigade,
DJ Style,
Bootsy Collins,
Blancmange,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Trumans Water,
Ronan,
Brick,
Monks,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.