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 Colombia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron 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 The Pretty Things 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Subhumans,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Gong,
Pierre Henry,
Metal Thangz,
The Victims,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Khruangbin,
Circle Jerks,
Buzzcocks,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Vogues,
The Angels of Light,
Banda Bassotti,
Funky Four + One,
Oneida,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Kinks,
Arab on Radar,
Interpol,
Monolake,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Detroit Cobras,
Niagra,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Pus,
Tears for Fears,
Public Image Ltd.,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agitation Free,
Oblivians,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monks,
Von Mondo,
Ultra Naté,
Sight & Sound,
Zapp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Clarke,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Easy Going,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sound,
The Slits,
The Knickerbockers,
Nils Olav,
Simply Red,
Ohio Players,
Bauhaus,
Brick,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.