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 Dominica and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 UT to the electroclash 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Oneida,
Television,
Joy Division,
Stiv Bators,
The Happenings,
Terry Callier,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Invisible,
Big Daddy Kane,
Prince Buster,
The United States of America,
Siglo XX,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Charles Mingus,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
The Golliwogs,
Arcadia,
The Blackbyrds,
Ten City,
Agent Orange,
New Order,
The Fall,
Eddi Front,
The Gap Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Blossom Toes,
Newcleus,
The Busters,
Whodini,
Ice-T,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
D'Angelo,
Goldenarms,
Adolescents,
Royal Trux,
Camouflage,
Robert Görl,
Technova,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The J.B.'s,
U.S. Maple,
Organ,
Patti Smith,
Babytalk,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Trojans,
Dual Sessions,
Pulsallama,
Rakim,
The Star Department,
The Fuzztones,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Nils Olav,
Arab on Radar,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.