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 Cambodia and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Make Up to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Stooges,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
The Blackbyrds,
The Zeros,
Hashim,
Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
Circle Jerks,
Mars,
Y Pants,
Surgeon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nirvana,
Animal Collective,
Neil Young,
The Music Machine,
Fatback Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Smiths,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Iggy Pop,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rekid,
Cymande,
a-ha,
The Remains,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Theoretical Girls,
Skriet,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gong,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arab on Radar,
AZ,
The Fugs,
Scratch Acid,
Saccharine Trust,
Magazine,
Scientists,
Half Japanese,
Aloha Tigers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Supertramp,
Rites of Spring,
Curtis Mayfield,
Swans,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camouflage,
Television,
The Monks,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.