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 Tehran.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Dark Day to the grunge 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Pole,
The Trojans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Subhumans,
Godley & Creme,
the Sonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lindisfarne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Ornette Coleman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Shoche,
Brand Nubian,
Glenn Branca,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Rites of Spring,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Chris Corsano,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Slave,
The Litter,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alton Ellis,
Letta Mbulu,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Electric Prunes,
Procol Harum,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
10cc,
The Blues Magoos,
Derrick Morgan,
Gabor Szabo,
The Golliwogs,
The Motions,
Cymande,
CMW,
Young Marble Giants,
Robert Wyatt,
Easy Going,
The Searchers,
Los Fastidios,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Blackbyrds,
Nirvana,
John Lydon,
Tim Buckley,
Idris Muhammad,
Chrome,
Minny Pops,
Kevin Saunderson,
Talk Talk,
Au Pairs,
David Bowie,
Kayak,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.