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 Kenya and from Mumbai.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Franke to the jazz 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Alton Ellis,
Agent Orange,
Soft Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
cv313,
Popol Vuh,
Flipper,
The Electric Prunes,
The American Breed,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fear,
Fat Boys,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Starr,
The Leaves,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Model 500,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bizarre Inc.,
The Monks,
Fugazi,
KRS-One,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pantaleimon,
Cal Tjader,
Letta Mbulu,
E-Dancer,
The Names,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sex Pistols,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fugs,
Suicide,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lindisfarne,
Ultravox,
A Certain Ratio,
Morten Harket,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
The Doors,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aural Exciters,
Surgeon,
Rod Modell,
Shuggie Otis,
Nils Olav,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Minutemen,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.