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 Kiribati and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Man Eating Sloth to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Loose Ends,
Davy DMX,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
Vainqueur,
Mark Hollis,
Anthony Braxton,
Brand Nubian,
Yaz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
Guru Guru,
Whodini,
Buzzcocks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
EPMD,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Graham Central Station,
Sällskapet,
Byron Stingily,
Ossler,
Sam Rivers,
John Holt,
the Germs,
MDC,
Bauhaus,
Judy Mowatt,
JFA,
The Last Poets,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Happenings,
Brothers Johnson,
Sound Behaviour,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minny Pops,
Swans,
the Fania All-Stars,
Chris Corsano,
Rakim,
Fela Kuti,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Gap Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Country Teasers,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eve St. Jones,
The Star Department,
Shuggie Otis,
Magazine,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.