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 Canada and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 E-Dancer to the funk 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Royal Trux,
Ornette Coleman,
Leonard Cohen,
Ralphi Rosario,
La Düsseldorf,
Todd Terry,
Rotary Connection,
Lucky Dragons,
Adolescents,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dark Day,
Camouflage,
The Standells,
Lakeside,
Pantaleimon,
The Monochrome Set,
Janne Schatter,
Anakelly,
Quantec,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
John Coltrane,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
OOIOO,
Zapp,
John Lydon,
EPMD,
Unwound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sandy B,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Neon Judgement,
Erasure,
The Leaves,
Metal Thangz,
Derrick May,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Smog,
10cc,
The United States of America,
ABC,
The Residents,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Depeche Mode,
Marine Girls,
Maleditus Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soul II Soul,
New York Dolls,
Symarip,
The Smoke,
Danielle Patucci,
The Count Five,
Swans,
Negative Approach,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.