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 Guinea and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Harmonia to the rock 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wally Richardson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Derrick May,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
Funky Four + One,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Barracudas,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Wells,
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Darondo,
Jawbox,
Electric Prunes,
Fear,
Bronski Beat,
Man Parrish,
Infiniti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Sparks,
Y Pants,
The Associates,
Average White Band,
Index,
Depeche Mode,
Hot Snakes,
the Slits,
Das Ding,
Tim Buckley,
Nick Fraelich,
Stetsasonic,
The Remains,
Gang of Four,
John Cale,
Joyce Sims,
Johnny Osbourne,
One Last Wish,
The Walker Brothers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Toasters,
The Litter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Visage,
Slave,
Q65,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
CMW,
the Swans,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.