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 New Zealand and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 X-101 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid 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 punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Cure,
Magma,
Howard Jones,
The Red Krayola,
Goldenarms,
Lou Christie,
Kenny Larkin,
The Offenders,
the Soft Cell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül II,
Arcadia,
Sam Rivers,
David Axelrod,
Pet Shop Boys,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tres Demented,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
Cymande,
Mary Jane Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Little Man,
Soft Cell,
Deadbeat,
Organ,
X-102,
June of 44,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Wake,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Black Dice,
Ice-T,
Ultravox,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
E-Dancer,
Gastr Del Sol,
Reuben Wilson,
The J.B.'s,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry's Kids,
Dennis Brown,
Iggy Pop,
the Fania All-Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marine Girls,
Echospace,
Colin Newman,
The Dave Clark Five,
Porter Ricks,
Erasure,
Buzzcocks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joe Finger,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.