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 Guatemala and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Normal to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ 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 mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Blake Baxter,
The Victims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
the Swans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Janne Schatter,
Flash Fearless,
The Misunderstood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mars,
Soft Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
CMW,
Steve Hackett,
Roger Hodgson,
Suburban Knight,
Erykah Badu,
The Kinks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sandy B,
Peter & Gordon,
Pylon,
The Walker Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
Davy DMX,
E-Dancer,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Smooth,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Blues Magoos,
Minor Threat,
Wasted Youth,
Dark Day,
Young Marble Giants,
The Sound,
Terry Callier,
Symarip,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Q65,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science,
Todd Rundgren,
Suicide,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
The Gap Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Rotary Connection,
John Coltrane,
JFA,
Andrew Hill,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Supertramp,
The Divine Comedy,
Letta Mbulu,
Loose Ends,
Ultravox,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bootsy Collins,
Schoolly D,
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.