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 Mozambique and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 48th St. Collective to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Moebius,
The Count Five,
Icehouse,
Danielle Patucci,
Television Personalities,
Supertramp,
Mission of Burma,
Grey Daturas,
Tubeway Army,
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Gerry Rafferty,
K-Klass,
Howard Jones,
the Sonics,
Simply Red,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ponytail,
Little Man,
The Smiths,
Dawn Penn,
Funkadelic,
Average White Band,
Hoover,
Barclay James Harvest,
T.S.O.L.,
Nico,
The Beau Brummels,
Gichy Dan,
Index,
Fad Gadget,
Country Teasers,
Cymande,
Franke,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Knickerbockers,
Basic Channel,
Newcleus,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Electric Prunes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Japan,
Ronan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Mantronix,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fatback Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Faust,
Dave Gahan,
Groovy Waters,
The Young Rascals,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.