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 Palau and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 kango's stein massive to the rap 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Searchers,
Clear Light,
Interpol,
Rakim,
Archie Shepp,
Bob Dylan,
Steve Hackett,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Das Ding,
Nico,
Los Fastidios,
Michelle Simonal,
R.M.O.,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
The Victims,
Skaos,
Junior Murvin,
Hardrive,
the Germs,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
JFA,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed,
Andrew Hill,
Groovy Waters,
Wally Richardson,
Prince Buster,
June Days,
Roy Ayers,
Model 500,
Lucky Dragons,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25,
the Association,
The Tremeloes,
Average White Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smoke,
Organ,
Half Japanese,
Q and Not U,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camberwell Now,
The Selecter,
Darondo,
Young Marble Giants,
X-102,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Quantec,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funkadelic,
Sister Nancy,
Josef K,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
Marcia Griffiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.