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 Tajikistan and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Derrick May to the crunk 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Magazine,
Half Japanese,
Kerri Chandler,
Moby Grape,
Magma,
Cameo,
Neu!,
Dennis Brown,
DNA,
The Selecter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Chris Corsano,
Monolake,
The Pop Group,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Prince Buster,
Nik Kershaw,
Groovy Waters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alphaville,
Wire,
Funkadelic,
Shoche,
Audionom,
Brand Nubian,
Yusef Lateef,
Matthew Bourne,
Subhumans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minny Pops,
Leonard Cohen,
PIL,
Yazoo,
Bad Manners,
Lou Christie,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Byrd,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Five Americans,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Motions,
cv313,
Brass Construction,
Deadbeat,
Guru Guru,
The Moody Blues,
Laurel Aitken,
Wings,
Pulsallama,
Swell Maps,
Country Teasers,
Television Personalities,
LL Cool J,
Heaven 17,
Index,
Second Layer,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Dirtbombs,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.