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 Greece and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe 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 harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blancmange,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Sneak,
Lebanon Hanover,
Groovy Waters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mr. Review,
Rufus Thomas,
Dead Boys,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quadrant,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Heaven 17,
The Music Machine,
The Golliwogs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Matthew Halsall,
Joensuu 1685,
Blossom Toes,
The Fugs,
Q and Not U,
Pantaleimon,
MDC,
Excepter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Move,
Toni Rubio,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Albert Ayler,
Gabor Szabo,
Qualms,
Sixth Finger,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skarface,
Bobby Womack,
Guru Guru,
Rekid,
Oneida,
DJ Style,
Funkadelic,
Carl Craig,
Bill Wells,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mars,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Sonics,
Rapeman,
Skaos,
Robert Hood,
T. Rex,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.