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 Germany and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the techno 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
The Associates,
The Skatalites,
Aural Exciters,
Silicon Teens,
Marine Girls,
New Order,
Absolute Body Control,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rufus Thomas,
Eve St. Jones,
Skarface,
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
Swell Maps,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Prince Buster,
Jeff Lynne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Infiniti,
Nirvana,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scientists,
Bizarre Inc.,
These Immortal Souls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Procol Harum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Normal,
Oneida,
Moby Grape,
Can,
The Toasters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Livin' Joy,
Leonard Cohen,
This Heat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
David Axelrod,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Suicide,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scan 7,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quadrant,
Magma,
Beasts of Bourbon,
LL Cool J,
Warren Ellis,
The Misunderstood,
Yusef Lateef,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rakim,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fall,
Cluster,
Depeche Mode,
Harpers Bizarre,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.