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 Ireland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar 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 The Techniques to the punk 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
T.S.O.L.,
Black Bananas,
Television Personalities,
Stockholm Monsters,
Audionom,
Negative Approach,
Gang Green,
Q and Not U,
Joe Finger,
Harmonia,
Flipper,
Harry Pussy,
Derrick Morgan,
Alison Limerick,
In Retrospect,
The Happenings,
The Doors,
Aswad,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Harpers Bizarre,
Amon Düül,
Sight & Sound,
Ultravox,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Toni Rubio,
Talk Talk,
Lindisfarne,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Lakeside,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The American Breed,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quantec,
China Crisis,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Pus,
Nik Kershaw,
The Five Americans,
Swell Maps,
Reuben Wilson,
Chrome,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Circle Jerks,
Morten Harket,
Deadbeat,
MDC,
Thompson Twins,
Flash Fearless,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
a-ha,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sex Pistols,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.