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 Taiwan 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 Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 David Bowie 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 Judy Mowatt to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
The Cramps,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eli Mardock,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
The Human League,
Country Teasers,
The J.B.'s,
Gang of Four,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Interpol,
Grey Daturas,
Ultravox,
Duran Duran,
David Axelrod,
Harmonia,
Arab on Radar,
Thompson Twins,
Jawbox,
Dorothy Ashby,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
48th St. Collective,
Crispy Ambulance,
Funkadelic,
Pantaleimon,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fugs,
Soft Cell,
Henry Cow,
Suicide,
The Golliwogs,
Parry Music,
The Associates,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Byron Stingily,
Organ,
Erasure,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Porter Ricks,
Michelle Simonal,
Severed Heads,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Outsiders,
Rekid,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slits,
Second Layer,
Shoche,
Colin Newman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultra Naté,
Aural Exciters,
Yellowson,
Fluxion,
FM Einheit,
Delta 5,
Cameo,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.