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 Panama and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cure to the punk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Jerry's Kids,
Intrusion,
Neil Young,
Flipper,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
Alice Coltrane,
Flash Fearless,
Ossler,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cramps,
Urselle,
Yellowson,
the Slits,
Ultravox,
Essential Logic,
Malaria!,
Frankie Knuckles,
New York Dolls,
Brick,
Parry Music,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
David Axelrod,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
China Crisis,
The Sound,
Swell Maps,
Blake Baxter,
the Swans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pulsallama,
Marine Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Arcadia,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
10cc,
EPMD,
Negative Approach,
Make Up,
Interpol,
Steve Hackett,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
Cheater Slicks,
Swans,
Sparks,
Whodini,
Stetsasonic,
Sun City Girls,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Count Five,
Barbara Tucker,
The Young Rascals,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mad Mike,
Accadde A,
Erasure,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.