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 Latvia and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Joensuu 1685 to the electroclash 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
The Tremeloes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Monolake,
Absolute Body Control,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fall,
The Dirtbombs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grauzone,
Colin Newman,
Hot Snakes,
China Crisis,
Neu!,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Gun Club,
Jandek,
a-ha,
Jesper Dahlback,
Au Pairs,
The Barracudas,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lebanon Hanover,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band,
Josef K,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tomorrow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pussy Galore,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
Deakin,
The Selecter,
Vainqueur,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
Skaos,
Bronski Beat,
Animal Collective,
June of 44,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cowsills,
Quantec,
Q and Not U,
Sun City Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ronan,
The Moleskins,
Dawn Penn,
Lungfish,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
The Five Americans,
Duran Duran,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.