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 Chad and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roxette 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Depeche Mode,
Grey Daturas,
Drexciya,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Groovy Waters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Oblivians,
Spandau Ballet,
The Five Americans,
Second Layer,
Babytalk,
the Swans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Christie,
Delta 5,
Janne Schatter,
Subhumans,
Connie Case,
Alphaville,
Ultra Naté,
The Pretty Things,
Can,
The Dead C,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana,
Yusef Lateef,
LL Cool J,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
Tim Buckley,
The Flesh Eaters,
DJ Sneak,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobby Womack,
New York Dolls,
The Invisible,
The J.B.'s,
Boz Scaggs,
Siglo XX,
Gang Starr,
Radiohead,
Shuggie Otis,
The Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Searchers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Con Funk Shun,
Ludus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rites of Spring,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oneida,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.