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 Tunisia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Von Mondo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABBA,
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
Mad Mike,
Pole,
MC5,
Tomorrow,
Surgeon,
The Invisible,
James Chance & The Contortions,
LL Cool J,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pantytec,
Liliput,
Leonard Cohen,
The New Christs,
T.S.O.L.,
Barbara Tucker,
Gastr Del Sol,
Schoolly D,
Procol Harum,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Archie Shepp,
the Germs,
Mission of Burma,
Morten Harket,
CMW,
Frankie Knuckles,
Massinfluence,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crooked Eye,
Moss Icon,
Warren Ellis,
Radiohead,
Amazonics,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
Althea and Donna,
Alphaville,
Chris Corsano,
The Golliwogs,
X-102,
Davy DMX,
PIL,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Smog,
Kas Product,
John Cale,
Suburban Knight,
Y Pants,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.