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 Niger and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 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 Camberwell Now to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
Fat Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
Fad Gadget,
Marvin Gaye,
Ponytail,
Alice Coltrane,
Soft Cell,
Little Man,
The Wake,
the Soft Cell,
Bootsy Collins,
Roy Ayers,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
Kool Moe Dee,
ABC,
Cymande,
Arthur Verocai,
K-Klass,
Organ,
Make Up,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Fraelich,
The Dirtbombs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bauhaus,
Kerri Chandler,
KRS-One,
CMW,
Khruangbin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rotary Connection,
Erykah Badu,
Ultravox,
New Age Steppers,
Niagra,
Ronan,
Dennis Brown,
Sun City Girls,
The Moleskins,
The Mummies,
These Immortal Souls,
Oblivians,
The Star Department,
Derrick May,
U.S. Maple,
Alphaville,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Black Pus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lou Reed,
Inner City,
Television Personalities,
Barry Ungar,
The Monochrome Set,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Darondo,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.