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 Albania and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 Marvin Gaye to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Von Mondo,
Letta Mbulu,
Patti Smith,
Joe Finger,
Leonard Cohen,
The Birthday Party,
Joyce Sims,
Alton Ellis,
Shoche,
Byron Stingily,
Soft Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Tom Boy,
Archie Shepp,
MDC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joy Division,
Delta 5,
Cybotron,
The Human League,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mr. Review,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wire,
Panda Bear,
L. Decosne,
Severed Heads,
Neu!,
Livin' Joy,
The Golliwogs,
Howard Jones,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultra Naté,
Pylon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fela Kuti,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jacques Brel,
a-ha,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Associates,
Jerry's Kids,
Warren Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
CMW,
Eric Dolphy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
H. Thieme,
Todd Terry,
Banda Bassotti,
Hardrive,
Niagra,
U.S. Maple,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Green,
Derrick Morgan,
The Velvet Underground,
DNA,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.