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 Suriname and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Minor Threat to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Sparks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Essential Logic,
Moss Icon,
Bronski Beat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Visage,
Fad Gadget,
The Knickerbockers,
China Crisis,
Sixth Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
The Motions,
Sällskapet,
Blossom Toes,
Fear,
Boz Scaggs,
Scion,
Metal Thangz,
Wolf Eyes,
Harmonia,
The Cure,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rufus Thomas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Silicon Teens,
Bill Wells,
Crash Course in Science,
Little Man,
Flipper,
The United States of America,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eli Mardock,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Second Layer,
Charles Mingus,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers,
The Moleskins,
The Cramps,
Brass Construction,
Lou Reed,
Warren Ellis,
Rekid,
The Black Dice,
The Martian,
Reuben Wilson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
10cc,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jimmy McGriff,
Derrick May,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Byrd,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.