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 Spain and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 New Order to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Flag,
Crispy Ambulance,
CMW,
Lungfish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lightning Bolt,
Suburban Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
Ohio Players,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New Order,
Minor Threat,
The Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gories,
Camouflage,
Neu!,
Hot Snakes,
The Associates,
PIL,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Severed Heads,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cybotron,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shoche,
Alison Limerick,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scan 7,
Average White Band,
Joy Division,
Duran Duran,
Tommy Roe,
Rosa Yemen,
Urselle,
The Tremeloes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Peter & Gordon,
B.T. Express,
Fugazi,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Misunderstood,
Amon Düül,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Robert Wyatt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joyce Sims,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.