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 Panama and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba 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 Cecil Taylor to the funk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Loose Ends,
The Gories,
Suicide,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marvin Gaye,
Los Fastidios,
Mars,
Peter & Gordon,
Tim Buckley,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Be Bop Deluxe,
T. Rex,
Flash Fearless,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rotary Connection,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scan 7,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Outsiders,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nico,
James White and The Blacks,
Dead Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The J.B.'s,
Brand Nubian,
Ponytail,
Scrapy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crooked Eye,
Q and Not U,
Gang Green,
Pagans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gastr Del Sol,
Monolake,
The Fugs,
Cybotron,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Wyatt,
Oblivians,
Grandmaster Flash,
10cc,
Barrington Levy,
Danielle Patucci,
Young Marble Giants,
Parry Music,
Dawn Penn,
The Move,
Derrick Morgan,
Slave,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.