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 Luxembourg and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin 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 China Crisis to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
The Detroit Cobras,
Faust,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Audionom,
Duran Duran,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Oblivians,
The Real Kids,
Moss Icon,
Talk Talk,
Fela Kuti,
Janne Schatter,
The J.B.'s,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Martian,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Kinks,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
The Angels of Light,
The Last Poets,
Ronnie Foster,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Lindisfarne,
Scion,
Depeche Mode,
New York Dolls,
Infiniti,
Procol Harum,
Surgeon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rod Modell,
Wolf Eyes,
The Seeds,
Intrusion,
Alison Limerick,
Japan,
Charles Mingus,
Minny Pops,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
The Pretty Things,
Stiv Bators,
Clear Light,
Dennis Brown,
John Lydon,
Boredoms,
Pylon,
Deepchord,
Davy DMX,
Letta Mbulu,
JFA,
The Cowsills,
Soulsonic Force,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.