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 Israel and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 The Mighty Diamonds to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Stooges,
Don Cherry,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fall,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Guru Guru,
The Blues Magoos,
Anakelly,
Harmonia,
Bob Dylan,
Kas Product,
Fugazi,
Delta 5,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David McCallum,
Pagans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ultravox,
Nico,
Fela Kuti,
John Foxx,
Crime,
Bad Manners,
Slick Rick,
Au Pairs,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Brass Construction,
Jerry's Kids,
Althea and Donna,
Inner City,
The Selecter,
Joe Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Radio Birdman,
Symarip,
Tomorrow,
Davy DMX,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
T. Rex,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
The Wake,
Underground Resistance,
the Association,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Pussy Galore,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.