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 Bahamas and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Todd Terry to the jazz 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Amazonics,
Visage,
Panda Bear,
Crash Course in Science,
Juan Atkins,
Infiniti,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hardrive,
Pharoah Sanders,
Drexciya,
Kaleidoscope,
a-ha,
the Human League,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barry Ungar,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultimate Spinach,
LL Cool J,
Davy DMX,
Clear Light,
Jacques Brel,
The Trojans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kas Product,
Sam Rivers,
Maurizio,
The Birthday Party,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Moon,
Eve St. Jones,
Grey Daturas,
Rapeman,
Pantytec,
Shoche,
Rufus Thomas,
Moss Icon,
Depeche Mode,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lucky Dragons,
Althea and Donna,
Mantronix,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quando Quango,
A Certain Ratio,
Black Sheep,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erykah Badu,
Steve Hackett,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Standells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.