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 Brunei and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sound,
Bill Near,
Newcleus,
Piero Umiliani,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Graham Central Station,
The Fall,
Fugazi,
The Standells,
The Neon Judgement,
Howard Jones,
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
B.T. Express,
JFA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terry Callier,
Y Pants,
Can,
Lightning Bolt,
Althea and Donna,
The Stooges,
ABC,
The Doors,
Yusef Lateef,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Martian,
The Pretty Things,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rosa Yemen,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Popol Vuh,
Electric Prunes,
Roger Hodgson,
Godley & Creme,
Roy Ayers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Isaac Hayes,
Marvin Gaye,
Quantec,
Man Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Little Man,
Moss Icon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boz Scaggs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lungfish,
Fear,
Neil Young,
Eden Ahbez,
the Slits,
X-101,
The Slackers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Last Poets,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.