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 Togo and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
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 spring reverb 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 Gang Gang Dance to the funk 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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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 Modern Lovers,
A Certain Ratio,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
The Cure,
Judy Mowatt,
The Searchers,
Darondo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Anakelly,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neu!,
Grandmaster Flash,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Ohio Players,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed,
The Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Smiths,
Can,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Hood,
John Holt,
Derrick May,
Peter and Kerry,
Lalann,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
The Mummies,
Slave,
Soft Cell,
Stiv Bators,
Tres Demented,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Leaves,
10cc,
the Germs,
Massinfluence,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cameo,
Warren Ellis,
T.S.O.L.,
The Toasters,
Jacob Miller,
Sam Rivers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cowsills,
Soulsonic Force,
Grauzone,
Fluxion,
The Walker Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minor Threat,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.