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 Bolivia and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Raincoats to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Metal Thangz,
June Days,
Sun City Girls,
Arcadia,
Eve St. Jones,
The Seeds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Moleskins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stereo Dub,
Dead Boys,
Wire,
Matthew Halsall,
Scott Walker,
The Doobie Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Pantaleimon,
ABBA,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cymande,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeff Lynne,
Yaz,
Roy Ayers,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amon Düül II,
Das Ding,
Black Pus,
Mars,
The Busters,
Barrington Levy,
Subhumans,
John Holt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fluxion,
Marmalade,
The Dead C,
Mark Hollis,
Average White Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bad Manners,
Quadrant,
Rapeman,
Rosa Yemen,
Dual Sessions,
Jawbox,
Jeff Mills,
Donny Hathaway,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Slits,
Warren Ellis,
Thee Headcoats,
Aural Exciters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Swans,
Tomorrow,
The Slackers,
Derrick Morgan,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.