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 Grenada and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ohio Players to the grunge 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Reagan Youth,
Television,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Arthur Verocai,
H. Thieme,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kerri Chandler,
A Certain Ratio,
The Evens,
The Star Department,
Alphaville,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
Roger Hodgson,
AZ,
Unwound,
Howard Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Buzzcocks,
Au Pairs,
The Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
The Dirtbombs,
Ronnie Foster,
Hashim,
The Slackers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Sixth Finger,
Mad Mike,
OOIOO,
Sonny Sharrock,
LL Cool J,
DNA,
Magma,
Y Pants,
New York Dolls,
Tears for Fears,
Gerry Rafferty,
Agent Orange,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Moleskins,
Second Layer,
Bush Tetras,
Todd Rundgren,
Archie Shepp,
Panda Bear,
Cluster,
Whodini,
Drexciya,
The Names,
Marc Almond,
The Associates,
Amon Düül,
Minutemen,
Delta 5,
Bang On A Can,
Siglo XX,
Tim Buckley,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.