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 Eritrea and from London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Bauhaus to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
H. Thieme,
David Axelrod,
Neu!,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Smiths,
Ronan,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Hood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Organ,
Moby Grape,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Index,
Babytalk,
Inner City,
World's Most,
Ohio Players,
Newcleus,
Lungfish,
the Bar-Kays,
Bootsy Collins,
Eli Mardock,
Stetsasonic,
X-101,
Crime,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aural Exciters,
Suburban Knight,
Scan 7,
Chris Corsano,
Warsaw,
In Retrospect,
Al Stewart,
Bad Manners,
Grauzone,
The Smoke,
Absolute Body Control,
L. Decosne,
Barbara Tucker,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Association,
The Kinks,
Dennis Brown,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Massinfluence,
Unwound,
Terry Callier,
Rufus Thomas,
Make Up,
Amon Düül II,
Harry Pussy,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Moleskins,
CMW,
The Red Krayola,
Stiv Bators,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.