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 Georgia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Toni Rubio to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America 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?
PIL,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Bar-Kays,
The Detroit Cobras,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Offenders,
Wolf Eyes,
Reuben Wilson,
Con Funk Shun,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Funky Four + One,
New Order,
Wings,
John Cale,
Anakelly,
Skaos,
Groovy Waters,
Faust,
The Leaves,
The Beau Brummels,
Japan,
Tears for Fears,
The Seeds,
Ossler,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
The Buckinghams,
Black Flag,
Patti Smith,
The Index,
Intrusion,
Section 25,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Womack,
Pantaleimon,
The Names,
The Cure,
The Music Machine,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hoover,
Agent Orange,
Bang On A Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
the Soft Cell,
Bootsy Collins,
Skarface,
Ultimate Spinach,
Monks,
The Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Litter,
Bluetip,
James White and The Blacks,
Eden Ahbez,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kool Moe Dee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.