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 Thailand and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tim Buckley to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
the Association,
Radiopuhelimet,
Robert Görl,
Delta 5,
Blake Baxter,
Ten City,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thompson Twins,
Camouflage,
Adolescents,
Todd Rundgren,
ABBA,
PIL,
Rotary Connection,
Eric Dolphy,
Quando Quango,
Mission of Burma,
Nirvana,
Max Romeo,
Visage,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
The Slits,
MDC,
A Certain Ratio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chris & Cosey,
K-Klass,
Q65,
Kaleidoscope,
Easy Going,
Funky Four + One,
Isaac Hayes,
JFA,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tomorrow,
a-ha,
Deakin,
China Crisis,
Motorama,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
Man Parrish,
The Angels of Light,
Basic Channel,
David Axelrod,
Outsiders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
F. McDonald,
Brand Nubian,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deadbeat,
the Sonics,
Pylon,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.