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 Austria and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 Procol Harum to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Can,
Absolute Body Control,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Infiniti,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang Green,
Excepter,
The Knickerbockers,
Susan Cadogan,
Tom Boy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Section 25,
Ultra Naté,
Man Parrish,
Ponytail,
Nirvana,
New Age Steppers,
Saccharine Trust,
the Association,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Pus,
Ice-T,
The Vogues,
Eurythmics,
Pere Ubu,
The Sound,
Guru Guru,
Rakim,
New Order,
Alison Limerick,
John Foxx,
DJ Style,
Marine Girls,
Pierre Henry,
Minnie Riperton,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Zero Boys,
Subhumans,
Delta 5,
Skaos,
Liliput,
Nik Kershaw,
Al Stewart,
The Monochrome Set,
Cybotron,
The Young Rascals,
Unrelated Segments,
X-102,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sixth Finger,
the Sonics,
The Happenings,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dual Sessions,
Marc Almond,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.