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 Dominica and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Davy DMX to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Althea and Donna,
Whodini,
Blake Baxter,
B.T. Express,
Intrusion,
Isaac Hayes,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Skatalites,
Barbara Tucker,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
D'Angelo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deakin,
The Monochrome Set,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grauzone,
Swans,
T. Rex,
The Real Kids,
Lindisfarne,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Osbourne,
Porter Ricks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Copeland,
Toni Rubio,
Negative Approach,
Gerry Rafferty,
Y Pants,
Average White Band,
Scratch Acid,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Pharoah Sanders,
Aural Exciters,
the Soft Cell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ronan,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Busters,
Newcleus,
the Slits,
The Dirtbombs,
Rotary Connection,
The Divine Comedy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Minutemen,
The Seeds,
Radiohead,
Gichy Dan,
The Gories,
kango's stein massive,
Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Blossom Toes,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.