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 Korea North and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 Byron Stingily to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Harry Pussy,
The Gap Band,
The Star Department,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alison Limerick,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
Amon Düül II,
Dennis Brown,
Cluster,
Anakelly,
Shoche,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Pus,
Michelle Simonal,
Fatback Band,
Arcadia,
Dark Day,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blues Magoos,
Steve Hackett,
Moss Icon,
Public Enemy,
Mad Mike,
Roxy Music,
China Crisis,
The Move,
The Barracudas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cheater Slicks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rotary Connection,
The Last Poets,
Harmonia,
Popol Vuh,
Gil Scott Heron,
Country Teasers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Dead C,
Terrestrial Tones,
DJ Style,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blancmange,
Motorama,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
Minny Pops,
Magazine,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.