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 Turkmenistan and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Amazonics to the funk 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Con Funk Shun,
Subhumans,
Flash Fearless,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Goldenarms,
Zero Boys,
Symarip,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Basic Channel,
Byron Stingily,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pop Group,
Brothers Johnson,
Dark Day,
Vladislav Delay,
Easy Going,
Joy Division,
The Cowsills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Electric Prunes,
Trumans Water,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
These Immortal Souls,
Soulsonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lightning Bolt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Kinks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Anthony Braxton,
ABC,
The United States of America,
The Leaves,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Bar-Kays,
Marc Almond,
Oneida,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Judy Mowatt,
The Evens,
Quadrant,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Modern Lovers,
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Siglo XX,
Maleditus Sound,
Audionom,
Sällskapet,
Barbara Tucker,
Lucky Dragons,
Skarface,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.