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 Bahrain and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the disco 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Toni Rubio,
Agitation Free,
Make Up,
Von Mondo,
Television Personalities,
Khruangbin,
One Last Wish,
The Victims,
Ponytail,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lakeside,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Radiohead,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deepchord,
The Smiths,
Black Sheep,
Boredoms,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cal Tjader,
The Birthday Party,
This Heat,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
Barry Ungar,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Görl,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter and Kerry,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
Sparks,
Tommy Roe,
DJ Sneak,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sarah Menescal,
Marmalade,
Rotary Connection,
Cheater Slicks,
Joy Division,
Suburban Knight,
Excepter,
Suicide,
New York Dolls,
Accadde A,
The Divine Comedy,
Niagra,
cv313,
Tropical Tobacco,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.