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 Congo and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Smiths to the dance 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Sam Rivers,
T. Rex,
Mo-Dettes,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
Kas Product,
Alice Coltrane,
R.M.O.,
Depeche Mode,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Panda Bear,
The Electric Prunes,
Technova,
Spandau Ballet,
Roxette,
Crooked Eye,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Green,
Parry Music,
Roxy Music,
Loose Ends,
Y Pants,
Sister Nancy,
Talk Talk,
Anakelly,
Quando Quango,
OOIOO,
Ludus,
The Young Rascals,
The Buckinghams,
Easy Going,
Soft Machine,
Amazonics,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oneida,
Lou Christie,
Eli Mardock,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neu!,
Pylon,
Scott Walker,
Echospace,
Pulsallama,
Dawn Penn,
Severed Heads,
Cymande,
The Blackbyrds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chrome,
Guru Guru,
Laurel Aitken,
The Five Americans,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Finger,
Bob Dylan,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.