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 Philippines 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba 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 F. McDonald to the techno 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Eurythmics,
Bauhaus,
Toni Rubio,
Gang of Four,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ultravox,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
Max Romeo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Schoolly D,
Quantec,
Anthony Braxton,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Raincoats,
The Smiths,
Roger Hodgson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeru the Damaja,
Godley & Creme,
Howard Jones,
Electric Prunes,
Leonard Cohen,
The Happenings,
Lungfish,
Sarah Menescal,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Maleditus Sound,
Audionom,
Barbara Tucker,
The Dead C,
The Star Department,
The Slackers,
Dark Day,
The Misunderstood,
Simply Red,
John Cale,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
The Mummies,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rotary Connection,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Marc Almond,
Reagan Youth,
48th St. Collective,
Cheater Slicks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Skaos,
the Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
Aaron Thompson,
Minor Threat,
Al Stewart,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.