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 Iraq and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Saccharine Trust to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Danielle Patucci,
June of 44,
Kayak,
Qualms,
Marvin Gaye,
Tears for Fears,
Vladislav Delay,
Symarip,
The Leaves,
The Index,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Bourne,
Warsaw,
Procol Harum,
B.T. Express,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sonics,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scientists,
Niagra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
UT,
Sound Behaviour,
Dawn Penn,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hashim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
Avey Tare,
Black Bananas,
Cymande,
Sällskapet,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Barbara Tucker,
Mo-Dettes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lyres,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Groovy Waters,
Flamin' Groovies,
The New Christs,
Inner City,
8 Eyed Spy,
Television,
Blossom Toes,
Soulsonic Force,
Fear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hoover,
John Foxx,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.