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 Uruguay and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Barry Ungar to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gong,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter and Kerry,
The Saints,
Amazonics,
Marine Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Skarface,
Vainqueur,
The United States of America,
The Birthday Party,
Subhumans,
The Modern Lovers,
Zero Boys,
Intrusion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Symarip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Smiths,
Alphaville,
Lou Christie,
Peter & Gordon,
Ponytail,
The Kinks,
Q and Not U,
Lyres,
Sister Nancy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Victims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rufus Thomas,
John Cale,
The Slits,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Index,
The Young Rascals,
Panda Bear,
Isaac Hayes,
Kurtis Blow,
The Star Department,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Residents,
The Move,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sugar Minott,
The Litter,
F. McDonald,
the Bar-Kays,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Technova,
Nas,
DJ Style,
Excepter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.