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 Papua New Guinea and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Drexciya to the techno 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Average White Band,
Model 500,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Smiths,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Trojans,
Aloha Tigers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
New Order,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Raincoats,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Happenings,
Babytalk,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visage,
Slick Rick,
Essential Logic,
MDC,
The Kinks,
Goldenarms,
The Walker Brothers,
Ludus,
Porter Ricks,
Khruangbin,
Parry Music,
Swell Maps,
Oneida,
DJ Sneak,
Suburban Knight,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Zapp,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
Arthur Verocai,
Blossom Toes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Easy Going,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Womack,
The Blues Magoos,
Cameo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
Freddie Wadling,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.