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 Norway and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Blancmange to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Tommy Roe,
Nils Olav,
Yaz,
Intrusion,
The Human League,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Association,
Leonard Cohen,
Sällskapet,
The Motions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Freddie Wadling,
Ponytail,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neu!,
Erasure,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tomorrow,
Eric Copeland,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gun Club,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter & Gordon,
Eli Mardock,
Infiniti,
Funky Four + One,
Babytalk,
Q65,
Fluxion,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fortunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sparks,
Althea and Donna,
John Coltrane,
Sarah Menescal,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Supertramp,
Prince Buster,
The Saints,
Sly & The Family Stone,
KRS-One,
Theoretical Girls,
the Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
R.M.O.,
Jeff Mills,
FM Einheit,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nas,
Eddi Front,
Andrew Hill,
Black Flag,
Japan,
The Divine Comedy,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.