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 Peru and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 The Fall to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Tomorrow,
The Young Rascals,
Radio Birdman,
Kaleidoscope,
Joy Division,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cal Tjader,
The Slackers,
Amazonics,
Y Pants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Davy DMX,
The Fugs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Angry Samoans,
David Bowie,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
Bang On A Can,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lungfish,
Parry Music,
Deadbeat,
Youth Brigade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fear,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minor Threat,
Deepchord,
The Names,
The Index,
Colin Newman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Curtis Mayfield,
Mad Mike,
The Motions,
Carl Craig,
The Moody Blues,
Lyres,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crime,
KRS-One,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
The Victims,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Normal,
OOIOO,
Gichy Dan,
Audionom,
Altered Images,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
Television Personalities,
Sun City Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Flash Fearless,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.