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 Malta and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Chrome to the grime 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Cowsills,
Graham Central Station,
T.S.O.L.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Names,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Neu!,
Pagans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Warren Ellis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Das Ding,
Marshall Jefferson,
Parry Music,
The Gories,
Barrington Levy,
Arab on Radar,
Roxette,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fuzztones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Kayak,
Metal Thangz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Junior Murvin,
Popol Vuh,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Hardrive,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fugazi,
Marvin Gaye,
Kas Product,
The Human League,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ralphi Rosario,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
E-Dancer,
Slick Rick,
DJ Style,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lakeside,
Cymande,
June Days,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Royal Trux,
Schoolly D,
48th St. Collective,
The Blues Magoos,
Grey Daturas,
Jeru the Damaja,
Zero Boys,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reagan Youth,
Masters at Work,
The Busters,
cv313,
Niagra,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.