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 Japan and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Steve Hackett to the rock 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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
Bluetip,
Suburban Knight,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
Amon Düül II,
Monks,
Fatback Band,
Simply Red,
Yellowson,
Pylon,
Dave Gahan,
Main Source,
Nik Kershaw,
Thee Headcoats,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scan 7,
Monolake,
China Crisis,
Wally Richardson,
FM Einheit,
The Buckinghams,
Country Joe & The Fish,
kango's stein massive,
The Cowsills,
Von Mondo,
David Axelrod,
Boz Scaggs,
Stiv Bators,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fugazi,
Eric Dolphy,
Symarip,
Howard Jones,
Gang Starr,
Byron Stingily,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nico,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lucky Dragons,
Cheater Slicks,
Cecil Taylor,
Alison Limerick,
Q and Not U,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jacques Brel,
The Searchers,
Godley & Creme,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Heaven 17,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Darondo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Little Man,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.