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 Denmark and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Todd Terry to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Absolute Body Control,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Byrd,
The Kinks,
Severed Heads,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Josef K,
Lou Reed,
New Age Steppers,
Shuggie Otis,
The Moody Blues,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The New Christs,
The Toasters,
The Pop Group,
Flamin' Groovies,
Drive Like Jehu,
Al Stewart,
Erykah Badu,
Sun City Girls,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Second Layer,
Cameo,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doors,
Whodini,
Quando Quango,
Heaven 17,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Moby Grape,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Depeche Mode,
Chris & Cosey,
Quadrant,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
Faraquet,
Soft Cell,
R.M.O.,
Audionom,
Country Teasers,
Urselle,
The Walker Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Agitation Free,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Traffic Nightmare,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Arthur Verocai,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.