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 Maldives and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Bad Manners,
The Black Dice,
Lightning Bolt,
Pagans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Moby Grape,
Black Moon,
Iggy Pop,
Surgeon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Foxx,
Negative Approach,
Lakeside,
Todd Rundgren,
Zapp,
Royal Trux,
Stetsasonic,
Skarface,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moody Blues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sparks,
Lucky Dragons,
Pharoah Sanders,
Qualms,
Harmonia,
Peter & Gordon,
Dead Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Davy DMX,
Visage,
David Bowie,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang Green,
B.T. Express,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oneida,
Freddie Wadling,
Shoche,
Susan Cadogan,
Connie Case,
Rites of Spring,
Essential Logic,
Skriet,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
Index,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.