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 Argentina and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Max Romeo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Marc Almond,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Amazonics,
Hardrive,
Technova,
Morten Harket,
Television Personalities,
Eric Copeland,
Babytalk,
The Skatalites,
Au Pairs,
Swell Maps,
Infiniti,
Sam Rivers,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Jacob Miller,
Mo-Dettes,
Neu!,
The Move,
The Motions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalo Schifrin,
Organ,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Connie Case,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mad Mike,
Frankie Knuckles,
UT,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Erykah Badu,
Chrome,
Aloha Tigers,
Pulsallama,
Sonic Youth,
Stereo Dub,
Niagra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Byrd,
Grey Daturas,
The Evens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Starr,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hashim,
Lightning Bolt,
FM Einheit,
Stiv Bators,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
CMW,
Easy Going,
Barrington Levy,
MC5,
Soft Cell,
the Swans,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.