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 Ghana and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 jazz 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
The Names,
Matthew Halsall,
Blake Baxter,
Roxette,
Sparks,
The Sound,
June Days,
Little Man,
Television,
Sixth Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Golliwogs,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hasil Adkins,
Wings,
Zero Boys,
Yaz,
T. Rex,
Connie Case,
The Zeros,
Massinfluence,
Franke,
kango's stein massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Flag,
Patti Smith,
Aloha Tigers,
Lucky Dragons,
Brothers Johnson,
The Cramps,
Fluxion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Skatalites,
the Slits,
Tom Boy,
The United States of America,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lindisfarne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tropical Tobacco,
Nik Kershaw,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed,
Howard Jones,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Pop Group,
Technova,
Gang Green,
La Düsseldorf,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cameo,
Country Teasers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Blackbyrds,
Spandau Ballet,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.