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 Barbados and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Magma to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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 Doobie Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Saccharine Trust,
Simply Red,
China Crisis,
the Sonics,
Connie Case,
cv313,
Cymande,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mission of Burma,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers,
Kerri Chandler,
Howard Jones,
The Human League,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jimmy McGriff,
Index,
Monolake,
Yaz,
Brothers Johnson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
UT,
Adolescents,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barrington Levy,
Marc Almond,
Marcia Griffiths,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare,
Erasure,
The Red Krayola,
Trumans Water,
The Saints,
Barry Ungar,
Unwound,
The Blues Magoos,
Fela Kuti,
Metal Thangz,
Nirvana,
Tomorrow,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Matthew Halsall,
The Raincoats,
Scrapy,
Bobby Byrd,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Shuggie Otis,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.