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 Dominica and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Man Eating Sloth to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
The Wake,
Bobbi Humphrey,
AZ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
L. Decosne,
Pole,
Pantytec,
ABBA,
The Names,
Groovy Waters,
Sandy B,
New Order,
Ten City,
The Skatalites,
Gong,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neu!,
Neil Young,
David Bowie,
Joe Finger,
Ohio Players,
Eddi Front,
Goldenarms,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Essential Logic,
Subhumans,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Byrd,
the Swans,
Wire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
James White and The Blacks,
John Lydon,
Qualms,
Mission of Burma,
Sarah Menescal,
Aaron Thompson,
Derrick May,
Simply Red,
Camberwell Now,
Kenny Larkin,
the Normal,
Pulsallama,
The Walker Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Rufus Thomas,
the Slits,
Peter & Gordon,
The Gladiators,
Anakelly,
Isaac Hayes,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Christie,
Tomorrow,
Gerry Rafferty,
Amon Düül,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.