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 Lithuania and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 David Bowie to the grunge 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Y Pants,
Soul Sonic Force,
June Days,
Eli Mardock,
The Cure,
ABBA,
Jeff Mills,
Eric Dolphy,
Scrapy,
Brick,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sight & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Fela Kuti,
Jeru the Damaja,
FM Einheit,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arcadia,
The Golliwogs,
Saccharine Trust,
F. McDonald,
Ituana,
The Pop Group,
Ronan,
Alice Coltrane,
Soulsonic Force,
Iggy Pop,
Delta 5,
Intrusion,
Rhythm & Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Urselle,
Essential Logic,
Negative Approach,
Morten Harket,
Lower 48,
The Doors,
Von Mondo,
The Residents,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Blackbyrds,
L. Decosne,
the Slits,
Tommy Roe,
Trumans Water,
Mantronix,
Black Pus,
Andrew Hill,
The Techniques,
Harry Pussy,
Henry Cow,
The Real Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Motorama,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marvin Gaye,
the Bar-Kays,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Stooges,
Television,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.