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 Marshall Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Essential Logic to the funk 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sonic Youth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ken Boothe,
The Doors,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
Camberwell Now,
DNA,
Flipper,
Monks,
Janne Schatter,
This Heat,
JFA,
One Last Wish,
Blancmange,
The Stooges,
Bootsy Collins,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ronan,
Soft Cell,
Sister Nancy,
The Evens,
Ultra Naté,
Slave,
Angry Samoans,
Judy Mowatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dave Gahan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Johnny Clarke,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fugazi,
Man Eating Sloth,
T.S.O.L.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alice Coltrane,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Invisible,
David Axelrod,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
T. Rex,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Names,
The Count Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Fear,
Ornette Coleman,
Joyce Sims,
Nils Olav,
Cheater Slicks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television Personalities,
Nik Kershaw,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.