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 Algeria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Magazine to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Radio Birdman,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobby Byrd,
Ponytail,
Connie Case,
Arab on Radar,
Au Pairs,
Barry Ungar,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Siglo XX,
LL Cool J,
Boredoms,
KRS-One,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cowsills,
Gastr Del Sol,
Loose Ends,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
Inner City,
Deadbeat,
The Young Rascals,
Godley & Creme,
Bronski Beat,
Iggy Pop,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Accadde A,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tubeway Army,
the Normal,
Japan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Franke,
Althea and Donna,
Grey Daturas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Susan Cadogan,
Silicon Teens,
Bob Dylan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ultravox,
The Stooges,
Yazoo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerri Chandler,
K-Klass,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amazonics,
New York Dolls,
The Gories,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gladiators,
Crime,
Sister Nancy,
Tomorrow,
Maurizio,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.