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 Liberia and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Terry Callier to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
L. Decosne,
Don Cherry,
Skarface,
Rakim,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Royal Trux,
Rod Modell,
Wings,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
CMW,
Deakin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
Panda Bear,
Warren Ellis,
The Move,
New Age Steppers,
Marine Girls,
Scion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Offenders,
Qualms,
Ludus,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Moss Icon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Spandau Ballet,
Yellowson,
Severed Heads,
Man Eating Sloth,
These Immortal Souls,
The Doors,
Whodini,
Suicide,
Colin Newman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pere Ubu,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slackers,
Chris & Cosey,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Suburban Knight,
Wally Richardson,
Goldenarms,
Hashim,
The Fuzztones,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dual Sessions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stiv Bators,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.