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 Jordan and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 FM Einheit to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
Todd Terry,
Slick Rick,
The New Christs,
Vainqueur,
Peter & Gordon,
The Remains,
Heaven 17,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Zeros,
Cheater Slicks,
The Golliwogs,
the Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Lydon,
Nick Fraelich,
Babytalk,
Rod Modell,
Easy Going,
Eden Ahbez,
The Human League,
Outsiders,
U.S. Maple,
Tom Boy,
Moss Icon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alton Ellis,
The Black Dice,
Icehouse,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Kinks,
Gastr Del Sol,
10cc,
Black Moon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Faust,
Visage,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The American Breed,
Camberwell Now,
Quando Quango,
Scratch Acid,
Liliput,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pop Group,
Anthony Braxton,
Slave,
Roger Hodgson,
the Association,
D'Angelo,
Brick,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.