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 Lithuania and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Lou Reed,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
The Walker Brothers,
The Human League,
Zero Boys,
Yellowson,
The Martian,
Mantronix,
Man Parrish,
Stereo Dub,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quadrant,
Camouflage,
Groovy Waters,
Anthony Braxton,
Crime,
The Remains,
Bobby Byrd,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funkadelic,
The Birthday Party,
Alton Ellis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cecil Taylor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mission of Burma,
Neu!,
The Slackers,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Sherman,
Brick,
Make Up,
Skriet,
Blossom Toes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Surgeon,
OOIOO,
Sonic Youth,
Mars,
Pharoah Sanders,
This Heat,
Aural Exciters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Thee Headcoats,
Average White Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Youth Brigade,
Banda Bassotti,
Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Busters,
the Human League,
Bill Near,
La Düsseldorf,
Dead Boys,
Oblivians,
Eve St. Jones,
These Immortal Souls,
China Crisis,
Kerri Chandler,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.