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 Portland.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Masters at Work to the jazz 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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
E-Dancer,
Soulsonic Force,
Liliput,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Byron Stingily,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Country Teasers,
Tres Demented,
Chris Corsano,
Drexciya,
Rotary Connection,
The Cramps,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
D'Angelo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Judy Mowatt,
Jeff Mills,
China Crisis,
Eurythmics,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
This Heat,
L. Decosne,
Wolf Eyes,
Soul II Soul,
Chris & Cosey,
Gerry Rafferty,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Foxx,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Motions,
Loose Ends,
Nik Kershaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joe Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Whodini,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fear,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hardrive,
Radiohead,
the Slits,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
ABBA,
Alton Ellis,
The Last Poets,
AZ,
Yaz,
Stiv Bators,
The Fortunes,
David Axelrod,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Walker Brothers,
Motorama,
the Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.