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 Armenia and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 World's Most to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Sarah Menescal,
Negative Approach,
Basic Channel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Animal Collective,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Flipper,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
La Düsseldorf,
Aswad,
The Fire Engines,
The Velvet Underground,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiohead,
Ice-T,
Vainqueur,
LL Cool J,
Ultra Naté,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joey Negro,
The Raincoats,
Fat Boys,
Silicon Teens,
E-Dancer,
Pulsallama,
Eurythmics,
The Buckinghams,
Subhumans,
In Retrospect,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Modern Lovers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Isaac Hayes,
The Martian,
Symarip,
Wasted Youth,
Mission of Burma,
Amon Düül II,
Model 500,
Jacob Miller,
Pet Shop Boys,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gong,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
The Golliwogs,
Newcleus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oblivians,
Bill Near,
Funky Four + One,
Rosa Yemen,
Davy DMX,
Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.