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 Mauritania and from Sao Paulo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Harpers Bizarre,
The J.B.'s,
The Barracudas,
Eve St. Jones,
Pet Shop Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fluxion,
The Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
Qualms,
The Trojans,
Clear Light,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wolf Eyes,
DJ Style,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sällskapet,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Sherman,
MDC,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amon Düül,
Brick,
Los Fastidios,
Kerri Chandler,
The Kinks,
Whodini,
The Gladiators,
ABC,
The Slackers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lyres,
World's Most,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Porter Ricks,
Zero Boys,
The Stooges,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Womack,
Roy Ayers,
Gang of Four,
China Crisis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Connie Case,
The Fugs,
The Sound,
Thee Headcoats,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Erykah Badu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.