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 Marshall Islands and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Chrome,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hardrive,
The Fortunes,
The Count Five,
Gabor Szabo,
Soulsonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Smooth,
Al Stewart,
The Alarm Clocks,
Patti Smith,
Los Fastidios,
Pussy Galore,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Robert Wyatt,
Ludus,
Sound Behaviour,
H. Thieme,
Henry Cow,
DJ Sneak,
Babytalk,
The Cure,
John Coltrane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barry Ungar,
Tim Buckley,
Blake Baxter,
The Happenings,
The Dave Clark Five,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bronski Beat,
Susan Cadogan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
10cc,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ultra Naté,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eric Dolphy,
Eden Ahbez,
Lucky Dragons,
Excepter,
Laurel Aitken,
David Axelrod,
Delta 5,
Section 25,
Livin' Joy,
Grauzone,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Reagan Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Japan,
MC5,
Marshall Jefferson,
Vladislav Delay,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arab on Radar,
Mandrill,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.