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 Mozambique and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 B.T. Express to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Max Romeo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eurythmics,
Drexciya,
MDC,
Urselle,
The Gories,
Chrome,
June of 44,
F. McDonald,
Au Pairs,
The Kinks,
Skriet,
Aloha Tigers,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crash Course in Science,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deakin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Spandau Ballet,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fortunes,
Patti Smith,
The Velvet Underground,
The Music Machine,
Oblivians,
Q65,
Nico,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scott Walker,
Quadrant,
Amon Düül,
Gang Green,
Reagan Youth,
Outsiders,
The Cowsills,
Nick Fraelich,
Q and Not U,
Pierre Henry,
The Neon Judgement,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Khruangbin,
cv313,
Bobby Womack,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lightning Bolt,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.