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 Bahamas and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 This Heat to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magazine,
Joe Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
D'Angelo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moebius,
Erasure,
The United States of America,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
Scientists,
The Smiths,
Camberwell Now,
Lee Hazlewood,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Byron Stingily,
Hardrive,
Nico,
Whodini,
48th St. Collective,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott Heron,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Invisible,
Girls At Our Best!,
Average White Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Piero Umiliani,
Negative Approach,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Skarface,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Skatalites,
Kenny Larkin,
Minutemen,
Toni Rubio,
Groovy Waters,
Sex Pistols,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Germs,
The Human League,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fire Engines,
The Sonics,
The Stooges,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marc Almond,
Soft Cell,
Josef K,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.