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 Tehran.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 ABC to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Mary Jane Girls,
Derrick May,
Delta 5,
Silicon Teens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Qualms,
Deakin,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Five Americans,
Tommy Roe,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Moleskins,
PIL,
Mars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fat Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q65,
The Monks,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Smiths,
Brothers Johnson,
Brass Construction,
Vainqueur,
The Smoke,
The Remains,
New York Dolls,
Jawbox,
Don Cherry,
Aloha Tigers,
Kayak,
Connie Case,
The Barracudas,
In Retrospect,
The Kinks,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Max Romeo,
Echospace,
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Byrd,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Amazonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Unrelated Segments,
Alphaville,
Angry Samoans,
Black Bananas,
OOIOO,
Hardrive,
Isaac Hayes,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Soul Sonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Mr. Review,
Roxy Music,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.