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 Lesotho and from Copenhagen.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Subhumans to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Bang On A Can,
Bronski Beat,
Josef K,
The Smoke,
Bauhaus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Sherman,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lightning Bolt,
Rotary Connection,
The Misunderstood,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fat Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
Sound Behaviour,
the Swans,
Wings,
Amon Düül,
Don Cherry,
Laurel Aitken,
Technova,
Soul II Soul,
Television Personalities,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Toni Rubio,
Barbara Tucker,
Stetsasonic,
The Buckinghams,
The Searchers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liliput,
Ultravox,
Joe Smooth,
The Birthday Party,
The Standells,
Kool Moe Dee,
Glambeats Corp.,
JFA,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sparks,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Terry,
Marc Almond,
Scan 7,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Essential Logic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pantytec,
Electric Prunes,
Rosa Yemen,
Patti Smith,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ludus,
The Beau Brummels,
Joey Negro,
The Doors,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.