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 South Africa and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Motions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Trojans,
Carl Craig,
Lou Christie,
Crispy Ambulance,
Tim Buckley,
The Neon Judgement,
Michelle Simonal,
Massinfluence,
Tom Boy,
The Tremeloes,
Von Mondo,
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jesper Dahlback,
Drive Like Jehu,
Graham Central Station,
Matthew Bourne,
Crooked Eye,
The Young Rascals,
Junior Murvin,
La Düsseldorf,
Duran Duran,
Livin' Joy,
Fatback Band,
Panda Bear,
Country Teasers,
Roxette,
Fluxion,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
Max Romeo,
Boz Scaggs,
Parry Music,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare,
Ludus,
Neil Young,
The United States of America,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
Dark Day,
Warsaw,
Thompson Twins,
Faraquet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Technova,
kango's stein massive,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minor Threat,
Lungfish,
The Fall,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.