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 Kazakhstan and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Icehouse to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang On A Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Suicide,
Dave Gahan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bob Dylan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lee Hazlewood,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crime,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor,
New York Dolls,
Tres Demented,
DNA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Youth Brigade,
Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
CMW,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sex Pistols,
Fad Gadget,
The Standells,
Q and Not U,
The Buckinghams,
Graham Central Station,
Radiohead,
One Last Wish,
Byron Stingily,
The Trojans,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Eric B and Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Unwound,
Davy DMX,
Ponytail,
Subhumans,
Bronski Beat,
The Stooges,
Soft Cell,
Heaven 17,
Gang of Four,
Altered Images,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Delta 5,
The American Breed,
Jerry's Kids,
Organ,
Danielle Patucci,
Das Ding,
Fugazi,
June Days,
KRS-One,
The Misunderstood,
Fatback Band,
Excepter,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.