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 Guatemala and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 New Age Steppers to the grunge 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pantytec,
Nirvana,
Technova,
Dual Sessions,
Sällskapet,
Alison Limerick,
Negative Approach,
Excepter,
The Fortunes,
Ituana,
The Mummies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wire,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jacob Miller,
Funky Four + One,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Count Five,
Harmonia,
Ronan,
Pole,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grauzone,
Barrington Levy,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Sonics,
DJ Style,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bang On A Can,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
Porter Ricks,
Black Sheep,
Parry Music,
ABC,
Zero Boys,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
La Düsseldorf,
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scan 7,
The Toasters,
Organ,
Avey Tare,
Kurtis Blow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
Circle Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Bootsy Collins,
L. Decosne,
Masters at Work,
Althea and Donna,
One Last Wish,
Mo-Dettes,
Subhumans,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.