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 South Africa and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Essential Logic to the grunge 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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gong,
The Associates,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
World's Most,
Oneida,
Sandy B,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Trumans Water,
Youth Brigade,
Cheater Slicks,
Pagans,
Eric Dolphy,
Cymande,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barry Ungar,
Accadde A,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sparks,
the Normal,
Little Man,
Jacques Brel,
Pierre Henry,
The Durutti Column,
The Selecter,
JFA,
The Sonics,
Rapeman,
L. Decosne,
Deadbeat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Neu!,
Qualms,
Adolescents,
Letta Mbulu,
Von Mondo,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
Joe Finger,
Moss Icon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Panda Bear,
Shuggie Otis,
Alphaville,
Albert Ayler,
Ludus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skaos,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
X-101,
Morten Harket,
Vladislav Delay,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mandrill,
Marine Girls,
Soft Machine,
Rotary Connection,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.