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 Equatorial Guinea and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the jazz 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Bootsy Collins,
Quadrant,
Motorama,
Buzzcocks,
Neu!,
Patti Smith,
Silicon Teens,
Black Pus,
Glenn Branca,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
Con Funk Shun,
Loose Ends,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispian St. Peters,
One Last Wish,
Cecil Taylor,
The Busters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeru the Damaja,
MDC,
X-101,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Stooges,
David McCallum,
FM Einheit,
Schoolly D,
Rakim,
The Five Americans,
Soft Machine,
Yaz,
Deadbeat,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Christie,
10cc,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kool Moe Dee,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Fall,
Sun City Girls,
Gang Green,
Bad Manners,
Roxette,
KRS-One,
Isaac Hayes,
Bauhaus,
Reagan Youth,
the Swans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Section 25,
Gerry Rafferty,
H. Thieme,
Sonic Youth,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Sällskapet,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.