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 Bahrain and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
David Bowie,
MC5,
Johnny Osbourne,
Average White Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The United States of America,
Ronan,
PIL,
Leonard Cohen,
EPMD,
Index,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Five Americans,
Gabor Szabo,
the Bar-Kays,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
The New Christs,
the Soft Cell,
Roger Hodgson,
JFA,
The Fire Engines,
Wings,
Make Up,
Vainqueur,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mission of Burma,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Spoonie Gee,
Erasure,
Royal Trux,
Trumans Water,
The Fuzztones,
Eddi Front,
James White and The Blacks,
Erykah Badu,
Gang of Four,
The Angels of Light,
Porter Ricks,
Desert Stars,
Skarface,
Minutemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Infiniti,
The Divine Comedy,
Faraquet,
Au Pairs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hashim,
Iggy Pop,
Camberwell Now,
Jeru the Damaja,
Con Funk Shun,
Audionom,
New York Dolls,
The Moleskins,
Zero Boys,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.