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 Mozambique and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Birthday Party to the rap 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Judy Mowatt,
Cymande,
Crime,
The Moleskins,
Todd Rundgren,
UT,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Evens,
The Victims,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Association,
Scan 7,
Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Erasure,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stiv Bators,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lungfish,
Tom Boy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Althea and Donna,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker,
The Electric Prunes,
Reuben Wilson,
The Tremeloes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Juan Atkins,
Japan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rosa Yemen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sound,
The Sonics,
AZ,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dead Boys,
Gong,
Camouflage,
Bill Near,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cheater Slicks,
Soul II Soul,
Pole,
Groovy Waters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Henry Cow,
Peter and Kerry,
The Birthday Party,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.