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 Barbados and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Patti Smith to the electroclash 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
The Electric Prunes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiopuhelimet,
Connie Case,
Robert Wyatt,
Rakim,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warren Ellis,
These Immortal Souls,
Von Mondo,
Underground Resistance,
Dawn Penn,
Anakelly,
The Invisible,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Martian,
Neil Young,
Delta 5,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agent Orange,
Moebius,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Stooges,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brass Construction,
Ice-T,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Selecter,
The Raincoats,
Letta Mbulu,
Michelle Simonal,
Clear Light,
The Gun Club,
Eurythmics,
Vladislav Delay,
Rotary Connection,
Lakeside,
ABBA,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Velvet Underground,
Deadbeat,
Crash Course in Science,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Trojans,
DNA,
Pole,
F. McDonald,
Lightning Bolt,
Excepter,
Zero Boys,
The Names,
Crooked Eye,
Flamin' Groovies,
Maleditus Sound,
EPMD,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.