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 Macedonia and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Invisible to the dance 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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Fugazi,
Lou Reed,
The Young Rascals,
Judy Mowatt,
Fluxion,
Pet Shop Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Babytalk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Model 500,
Flash Fearless,
Drexciya,
La Düsseldorf,
Joy Division,
The Moody Blues,
Clear Light,
Kerrie Biddell,
Althea and Donna,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mojo Men,
Sam Rivers,
Blancmange,
Harmonia,
Faraquet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rod Modell,
Minny Pops,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pussy Galore,
The Searchers,
Supertramp,
Second Layer,
Funky Four + One,
In Retrospect,
Blake Baxter,
Tomorrow,
The Shadows of Knight,
Malaria!,
Newcleus,
Rakim,
Yazoo,
David Bowie,
Duran Duran,
The Zeros,
John Holt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marvin Gaye,
Average White Band,
kango's stein massive,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radiopuhelimet,
The American Breed,
Terry Callier,
Severed Heads,
Pole,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Al Stewart,
Brick,
Tim Buckley,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.