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 Afghanistan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer 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 Bauhaus to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Joe Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gories,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stereo Dub,
Nation of Ulysses,
Altered Images,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DJ Sneak,
Susan Cadogan,
Bill Near,
Joe Finger,
Boredoms,
Arcadia,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cure,
Yazoo,
Tears for Fears,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Reed,
Junior Murvin,
Steve Hackett,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Sun Ra,
Scan 7,
Urselle,
Wings,
Letta Mbulu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
June Days,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Stiv Bators,
The Gladiators,
Interpol,
Little Man,
Zapp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Techniques,
Groovy Waters,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cramps,
Bauhaus,
Neil Young,
The Kinks,
The Wake,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Public Enemy,
David Axelrod,
Josef K,
The Associates,
The Martian,
The Litter,
The Trojans,
In Retrospect,
Los Fastidios,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.