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 Cambodia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Boz Scaggs to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cameo,
The Fire Engines,
The Golliwogs,
Stereo Dub,
The Last Poets,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bronski Beat,
Vainqueur,
The Young Rascals,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker,
Deadbeat,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultravox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tim Buckley,
Monolake,
Sun Ra,
The Knickerbockers,
The Stooges,
Saccharine Trust,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
Donny Hathaway,
Kaleidoscope,
Brass Construction,
Funkadelic,
Idris Muhammad,
The Neon Judgement,
Accadde A,
Tubeway Army,
The Moleskins,
The Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Spoonie Gee,
Sister Nancy,
Archie Shepp,
Ludus,
Bootsy Collins,
MDC,
World's Most,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Traffic Nightmare,
Stetsasonic,
Amazonics,
The Real Kids,
Toni Rubio,
Scion,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Sheep,
Quadrant,
Suburban Knight,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gories,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.