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 Antigua and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Sam Rivers,
Faust,
Swell Maps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
The Last Poets,
Barbara Tucker,
Dorothy Ashby,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Womack,
Lyres,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
The Gap Band,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chrome,
Inner City,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fat Boys,
Organ,
The Slits,
Tres Demented,
Ice-T,
Lalann,
The Gladiators,
Oblivians,
Circle Jerks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nico,
Royal Trux,
The Sonics,
The Star Department,
Howard Jones,
June of 44,
Darondo,
Moebius,
Essential Logic,
Mad Mike,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scrapy,
Lindisfarne,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Suburban Knight,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Todd Terry,
Pierre Henry,
Erykah Badu,
Jacob Miller,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Excepter,
The Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joey Negro,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Index,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.