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 Japan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the dance 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Fluxion,
Fear,
T. Rex,
X-102,
Peter & Gordon,
James White and The Blacks,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Severed Heads,
Animal Collective,
The Star Department,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick May,
Barry Ungar,
Crash Course in Science,
Lower 48,
Laurel Aitken,
The Smiths,
Royal Trux,
MDC,
Silicon Teens,
Theoretical Girls,
The Names,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne,
Average White Band,
The Mummies,
Infiniti,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Oblivians,
Hasil Adkins,
Main Source,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thompson Twins,
The J.B.'s,
June Days,
Kaleidoscope,
Eli Mardock,
Sugar Minott,
The Young Rascals,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Trojans,
World's Most,
Charles Mingus,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ronan,
Cybotron,
Oneida,
Moebius,
Urselle,
Essential Logic,
kango's stein massive,
Tommy Roe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
Surgeon,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.