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 Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Qualms to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Banda Bassotti,
Lindisfarne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ornette Coleman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quantec,
Brick,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scratch Acid,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arab on Radar,
Anakelly,
KRS-One,
Sun City Girls,
Nirvana,
Lightning Bolt,
Pantaleimon,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Grass Roots,
Deakin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joey Negro,
Stockholm Monsters,
Clear Light,
Circle Jerks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Parry Music,
R.M.O.,
Danielle Patucci,
Monolake,
Delon & Dalcan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nas,
Half Japanese,
Sugar Minott,
Scion,
Rod Modell,
The Blues Magoos,
Bronski Beat,
The Count Five,
Altered Images,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jawbox,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Thee Headcoats,
The Music Machine,
Duran Duran,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gong,
Juan Atkins,
Camberwell Now,
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül,
Kerri Chandler,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Toasters,
Aural Exciters,
Oneida,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Görl,
Q and Not U,
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