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 Sweden and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Robert Palmer 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 Bronski Beat to the rock 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Babytalk,
Neu!,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Jerry's Kids,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Icehouse,
The Gap Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Raincoats,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Womack,
John Cale,
John Coltrane,
The Index,
Roger Hodgson,
Wally Richardson,
ABC,
Slave,
Shoche,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Moon,
Reuben Wilson,
Rosa Yemen,
Fear,
Monolake,
Bluetip,
The Fuzztones,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
Altered Images,
Roxette,
Gong,
The Divine Comedy,
Model 500,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ronan,
Brass Construction,
Maurizio,
Janne Schatter,
Scientists,
Connie Case,
Robert Wyatt,
Funkadelic,
LL Cool J,
Byron Stingily,
Procol Harum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Moleskins,
The Monochrome Set,
Vladislav Delay,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
Laurel Aitken,
MDC,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.