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 Haiti and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 Dave Gahan to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Japan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Harmonia,
The Count Five,
Das Ding,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fela Kuti,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Names,
Cybotron,
Nico,
Hardrive,
The Gories,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
Cymande,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sister Nancy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scion,
Massinfluence,
Altered Images,
Hashim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tom Boy,
Sun Ra,
Tim Buckley,
Stockholm Monsters,
Blossom Toes,
the Sonics,
Stetsasonic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Q65,
Marine Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
Icehouse,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fortunes,
Don Cherry,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shuggie Otis,
Essential Logic,
Negative Approach,
Eric Dolphy,
David McCallum,
Nas,
Pole,
The Smoke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Swans,
Eurythmics,
The Star Department,
Joyce Sims,
The Evens,
Ken Boothe,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.