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 Sierra Leone and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the electroclash 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Radiopuhelimet,
Symarip,
Skaos,
Shuggie Otis,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Rakim,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Glenn Branca,
Deepchord,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arcadia,
Maurizio,
Crash Course in Science,
The Young Rascals,
Rosa Yemen,
Roy Ayers,
Jerry's Kids,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Zeros,
Idris Muhammad,
Radio Birdman,
Sparks,
The Cramps,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Harry Pussy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
Sällskapet,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sugar Minott,
Kaleidoscope,
Blake Baxter,
Faust,
Warsaw,
Camberwell Now,
Fatback Band,
48th St. Collective,
Slick Rick,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
James White and The Blacks,
Nico,
Y Pants,
Sandy B,
Television,
Minnie Riperton,
The United States of America,
The Selecter,
Jacob Miller,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bluetip,
The Cure,
A Certain Ratio,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.