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 India and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron 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 Absolute Body Control to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Moss Icon,
Graham Central Station,
Idris Muhammad,
Sister Nancy,
Index,
The Techniques,
UT,
Bad Manners,
Lakeside,
Pulsallama,
The Red Krayola,
Gang Green,
The Raincoats,
Banda Bassotti,
Eden Ahbez,
Danielle Patucci,
Hardrive,
FM Einheit,
Ten City,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scion,
One Last Wish,
Flash Fearless,
Tommy Roe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Warsaw,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quantec,
Rufus Thomas,
The Beau Brummels,
Roxy Music,
Absolute Body Control,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Faraquet,
Suburban Knight,
Howard Jones,
Dark Day,
The American Breed,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soft Cell,
Alison Limerick,
Junior Murvin,
Motorama,
Nirvana,
Animal Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sight & Sound,
Pole,
The Searchers,
Bluetip,
June of 44,
Pere Ubu,
Iggy Pop,
Joy Division,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mark Hollis,
Jerry's Kids,
Ralphi Rosario,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.