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 Mali and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Happenings to the grunge 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Television,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Happenings,
Ronan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Drexciya,
Jawbox,
Spoonie Gee,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
The American Breed,
Junior Murvin,
Pole,
Trumans Water,
The Flesh Eaters,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerrie Biddell,
Iggy Pop,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Johnny Clarke,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker,
Accadde A,
Wings,
The Toasters,
The Misunderstood,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
cv313,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q and Not U,
Skaos,
Eddi Front,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arcadia,
Tears for Fears,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
The Red Krayola,
Bob Dylan,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Byrd,
Brick,
Quantec,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visage,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Sonics,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Monks,
Nick Fraelich,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Andrew Hill,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Pus,
Lindisfarne,
Mantronix,
Scion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.