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 Romania and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar 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 Royal Trux to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Monks,
Sun Ra,
Vainqueur,
AZ,
The Names,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Pus,
Derrick Morgan,
Erykah Badu,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
Porter Ricks,
Little Man,
The Move,
Absolute Body Control,
Camouflage,
Jerry's Kids,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lyres,
Erasure,
The Gap Band,
Quantec,
Thee Headcoats,
EPMD,
Albert Ayler,
Circle Jerks,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
The Last Poets,
Warsaw,
Sarah Menescal,
The Buckinghams,
Fatback Band,
Kayak,
John Coltrane,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pere Ubu,
Fluxion,
The Slits,
Nils Olav,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cecil Taylor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Y Pants,
Easy Going,
The Star Department,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang Starr,
Nico,
Sister Nancy,
Moss Icon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Q65,
The Blues Magoos,
Arab on Radar,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.