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 Chile and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Jimmy McGriff to the electroclash 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Searchers,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Lynne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Godley & Creme,
Siglo XX,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Martian,
Matthew Halsall,
John Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Smooth,
The Move,
Delta 5,
E-Dancer,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Danielle Patucci,
Wally Richardson,
KRS-One,
Television,
Gil Scott Heron,
OOIOO,
The Gun Club,
Zero Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ituana,
Pantaleimon,
the Bar-Kays,
Traffic Nightmare,
Flash Fearless,
Das Ding,
Gregory Isaacs,
Altered Images,
Fad Gadget,
Black Bananas,
Kurtis Blow,
The Stooges,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David Axelrod,
Joe Finger,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rotary Connection,
Y Pants,
Sun City Girls,
Peter & Gordon,
Unrelated Segments,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
The Buckinghams,
Quadrant,
Eric Copeland,
T.S.O.L.,
Half Japanese,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Agitation Free,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.