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 Russia and from Woodstock.
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 Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Banda Bassotti,
Hardrive,
Popol Vuh,
Massinfluence,
New Order,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Theoretical Girls,
Bad Manners,
Newcleus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
Organ,
Parry Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bill Near,
Eurythmics,
The Standells,
The Neon Judgement,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oblivians,
Arab on Radar,
Outsiders,
Henry Cow,
Alison Limerick,
Second Layer,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Sheep,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
EPMD,
Cecil Taylor,
48th St. Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
kango's stein massive,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Charles Mingus,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric Copeland,
Buzzcocks,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Invisible,
Con Funk Shun,
Minnie Riperton,
Fear,
Saccharine Trust,
Ice-T,
The United States of America,
Todd Rundgren,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bizarre Inc.,
OOIOO,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
Jimmy McGriff,
Accadde A,
Surgeon,
Letta Mbulu,
Amon Düül II,
Franke,
Sam Rivers,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.