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 Malaysia and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Nils Olav to the dance 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Michelle Simonal,
Goldenarms,
Erykah Badu,
Harmonia,
The Raincoats,
Massinfluence,
48th St. Collective,
Easy Going,
Average White Band,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Leonard Cohen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
Ralphi Rosario,
Q and Not U,
Eyeless In Gaza,
LL Cool J,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Cure,
Peter & Gordon,
The Happenings,
D'Angelo,
Ice-T,
Talk Talk,
Accadde A,
Matthew Halsall,
Inner City,
Henry Cow,
The Dirtbombs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Curtis Mayfield,
T.S.O.L.,
T. Rex,
Grey Daturas,
Gregory Isaacs,
Letta Mbulu,
Technova,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Bourne,
Roy Ayers,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Fat Boys,
Sarah Menescal,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aswad,
Agitation Free,
The Pop Group,
Kas Product,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
Brass Construction,
Howard Jones,
Soft Cell,
X-Ray Spex,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.