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 Bahrain and from Manchester.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Buckinghams to the electroclash 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Al Stewart,
Agent Orange,
Kayak,
Lucky Dragons,
The Standells,
FM Einheit,
Metal Thangz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delta 5,
Scientists,
KRS-One,
Fugazi,
The Busters,
Sam Rivers,
the Normal,
New Age Steppers,
Franke,
Saccharine Trust,
The Offenders,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Masters at Work,
Cecil Taylor,
The Mummies,
Camouflage,
The Gun Club,
Roy Ayers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glenn Branca,
Amon Düül II,
Blake Baxter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fall,
The Wake,
Spoonie Gee,
Hasil Adkins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Red Krayola,
Excepter,
Deakin,
The Skatalites,
Matthew Halsall,
Donny Hathaway,
Warsaw,
The Walker Brothers,
The Evens,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The American Breed,
Sex Pistols,
Fear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ponytail,
Pere Ubu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Moleskins,
These Immortal Souls,
Arcadia,
Derrick Morgan,
Au Pairs,
Suburban Knight,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.