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 Sri Lanka and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Chrome to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Von Mondo,
Lalann,
the Swans,
Iggy Pop,
Amon Düül,
Kayak,
Bang On A Can,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
Flipper,
Tomorrow,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
New Order,
Buzzcocks,
In Retrospect,
Brand Nubian,
Los Fastidios,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Sound Behaviour,
Technova,
The Sonics,
Tubeway Army,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Motorama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pop Group,
The Fall,
F. McDonald,
DNA,
Arthur Verocai,
Urselle,
Make Up,
Harry Pussy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gong,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
a-ha,
Bill Near,
Wally Richardson,
The Electric Prunes,
Gabor Szabo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Bananas,
Rapeman,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
the Association,
Little Man,
Kevin Saunderson,
Electric Prunes,
The Neon Judgement,
The Grass Roots,
L. Decosne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Maurizio,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.