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 Slovakia and from Johannesburg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Misunderstood to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans 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 crunk 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
One Last Wish,
Talk Talk,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The J.B.'s,
Joyce Sims,
Minnie Riperton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
cv313,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Remains,
Lower 48,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
June of 44,
Rotary Connection,
New Order,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quadrant,
The Cure,
Dead Boys,
Interpol,
Crime,
Flash Fearless,
The Cowsills,
Camouflage,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Saccharine Trust,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Monochrome Set,
DNA,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
China Crisis,
Blossom Toes,
Johnny Clarke,
Faraquet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
FM Einheit,
The Real Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
Bush Tetras,
Sugar Minott,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Nico,
Bluetip,
Section 25,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
Symarip,
Desert Stars,
The Techniques,
Roxette,
AZ,
The Residents,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.