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 Brunei and from Glasgow.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ituana to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Real Kids,
Idris Muhammad,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eli Mardock,
CMW,
Janne Schatter,
Nico,
Qualms,
Cecil Taylor,
Soulsonic Force,
Cymande,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerri Chandler,
The J.B.'s,
JFA,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set,
Junior Murvin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Wake,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Five Americans,
Sun City Girls,
Pole,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bob Dylan,
The Fuzztones,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Slick Rick,
Newcleus,
The Last Poets,
Black Sheep,
Nik Kershaw,
This Heat,
Tom Boy,
X-102,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lucky Dragons,
Sällskapet,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Knickerbockers,
Prince Buster,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Warsaw,
Mo-Dettes,
Maleditus Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pagans,
Ludus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dark Day,
Crispian St. Peters,
Yaz,
The Standells,
The Gories,
Pantytec,
Ice-T,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.