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 Singapore and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 The Walker Brothers to the disco 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Todd Terry,
Harmonia,
Monolake,
Nation of Ulysses,
Easy Going,
Clear Light,
The Litter,
Oblivians,
Bang On A Can,
Ralphi Rosario,
Shoche,
Smog,
Mary Jane Girls,
Panda Bear,
Make Up,
Khruangbin,
Iggy Pop,
Lightning Bolt,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jawbox,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Crooked Eye,
Boogie Down Productions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Black Flag,
Spandau Ballet,
Amon Düül,
Steve Hackett,
This Heat,
Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Glenn Branca,
Ultravox,
Ossler,
F. McDonald,
Desert Stars,
FM Einheit,
Roger Hodgson,
Q and Not U,
Duran Duran,
Section 25,
Visage,
Stiv Bators,
Cal Tjader,
Davy DMX,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Womack,
The Searchers,
The Monks,
Eurythmics,
Hasil Adkins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Birthday Party,
Sandy B,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.