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-Bissau 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the crunk 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barry Ungar,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Infiniti,
Black Flag,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deadbeat,
Lyres,
Wally Richardson,
Dave Gahan,
Cymande,
The Techniques,
The Velvet Underground,
Newcleus,
The Beau Brummels,
10cc,
Sam Rivers,
Fela Kuti,
The Kinks,
Technova,
Japan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Duran Duran,
Mad Mike,
Eric Copeland,
Tommy Roe,
The Offenders,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hardrive,
Steve Hackett,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
Arthur Verocai,
Bob Dylan,
Magma,
Monolake,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sister Nancy,
Pagans,
Massinfluence,
Severed Heads,
The Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Danielle Patucci,
Guru Guru,
Aural Exciters,
Chris & Cosey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jacques Brel,
Soft Cell,
Banda Bassotti,
Babytalk,
Trumans Water,
Chrome,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Pierre Henry,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.