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 Palau and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin 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 Joey Negro to the rap 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Brand Nubian,
Pierre Henry,
Slave,
In Retrospect,
Eden Ahbez,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Prunes,
Royal Trux,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minny Pops,
Japan,
Silicon Teens,
Fad Gadget,
The Evens,
Toni Rubio,
Throbbing Gristle,
Charles Mingus,
Nas,
Monolake,
Desert Stars,
Fluxion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bush Tetras,
The Pop Group,
Jandek,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
The Moody Blues,
Quadrant,
Man Parrish,
Sun City Girls,
PIL,
Curtis Mayfield,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ten City,
Bizarre Inc.,
Josef K,
Minnie Riperton,
Sight & Sound,
Stereo Dub,
Au Pairs,
Todd Terry,
Chrome,
Panda Bear,
The American Breed,
Ponytail,
The Raincoats,
CMW,
UT,
Aaron Thompson,
The Walker Brothers,
FM Einheit,
Faraquet,
X-101,
X-Ray Spex,
10cc,
The Mummies,
Excepter,
Khruangbin,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.