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 Colombia and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Sixth Finger to the rap 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dead Boys,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ludus,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
La Düsseldorf,
Liliput,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
Ultravox,
Delta 5,
Susan Cadogan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Donald Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
Blake Baxter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Youth Brigade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Adolescents,
Morten Harket,
Eyeless In Gaza,
China Crisis,
The Seeds,
The Human League,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eden Ahbez,
Bronski Beat,
Schoolly D,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Man Parrish,
The American Breed,
Interpol,
Gerry Rafferty,
Silicon Teens,
Bang On A Can,
The Music Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Velvet Underground,
Mantronix,
Average White Band,
Freddie Wadling,
X-102,
Soft Machine,
Sonny Sharrock,
Absolute Body Control,
Heaven 17,
Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Swell Maps,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.