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 Equatorial Guinea and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 China Crisis to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nils Olav,
Fluxion,
Donald Byrd,
The Saints,
The Evens,
Main Source,
Stiv Bators,
Tim Buckley,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Buzzcocks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
PIL,
Anthony Braxton,
Youth Brigade,
The Gories,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ken Boothe,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Motions,
ABBA,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Colin Newman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barry Ungar,
Iggy Pop,
Monolake,
Shoche,
Heaven 17,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Human League,
Radiopuhelimet,
Electric Prunes,
Jawbox,
Q and Not U,
Neu!,
Harmonia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roxette,
Rites of Spring,
Crooked Eye,
Warsaw,
The Cramps,
Anakelly,
Boredoms,
Moebius,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
ABC,
Das Ding,
Joe Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sixth Finger,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.