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 Palau and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 The Gladiators to the rap 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ludus,
Kayak,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pylon,
Quadrant,
The Monks,
Donald Byrd,
Black Flag,
Angry Samoans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mission of Burma,
Subhumans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jacob Miller,
Mad Mike,
Sixth Finger,
Aswad,
The Martian,
The Residents,
The Raincoats,
Moby Grape,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sam Rivers,
Henry Cow,
China Crisis,
Easy Going,
Barbara Tucker,
Drive Like Jehu,
Davy DMX,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Velvet Underground,
Monolake,
Gang Starr,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flash Fearless,
Lakeside,
Cal Tjader,
the Sonics,
Tres Demented,
Bob Dylan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Terry,
Josef K,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Archie Shepp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cluster,
June of 44,
Nick Fraelich,
The Golliwogs,
The Fugs,
Swell Maps,
Alison Limerick,
John Foxx,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.