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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joensuu 1685 to the punk 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
The Barracudas,
Joensuu 1685,
Morten Harket,
Erasure,
Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hardrive,
Glenn Branca,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Cluster,
Todd Terry,
The Associates,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Suburban Knight,
The Human League,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fugs,
The Remains,
June Days,
The Slackers,
The Sound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Byron Stingily,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Prince Buster,
Stereo Dub,
Scott Walker,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Derrick May,
Bootsy Collins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Flipper,
In Retrospect,
Goldenarms,
Inner City,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
a-ha,
Circle Jerks,
Parry Music,
Thee Headcoats,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Cecil Taylor,
Gichy Dan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lungfish,
The Pop Group,
The Cowsills,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
One Last Wish,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
The Young Rascals,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.