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 Barbados and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Neon Judgement to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Anakelly,
Dave Gahan,
The Happenings,
The Techniques,
Amon Düül II,
Carl Craig,
The Smoke,
Lyres,
Soulsonic Force,
OOIOO,
Jimmy McGriff,
Drexciya,
The Busters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed,
DNA,
Q65,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minor Threat,
The Dirtbombs,
Yellowson,
Deadbeat,
ABC,
B.T. Express,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David McCallum,
Bobby Womack,
Crime,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tim Buckley,
Rapeman,
Nick Fraelich,
The Alarm Clocks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Buzzcocks,
Cameo,
Alison Limerick,
Anthony Braxton,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blake Baxter,
Glenn Branca,
X-102,
The Fuzztones,
Kerri Chandler,
Camberwell Now,
Joey Negro,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chrome,
The American Breed,
China Crisis,
Negative Approach,
Althea and Donna,
Ituana,
Stetsasonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Todd Terry,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.