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 Nicaragua and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Spoonie Gee,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Funkadelic,
Country Teasers,
Aswad,
Bluetip,
K-Klass,
Flash Fearless,
Mary Jane Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Pere Ubu,
Suicide,
T. Rex,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oblivians,
Howard Jones,
The Leaves,
Television Personalities,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Matthew Halsall,
Darondo,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers,
Television,
Hoover,
LL Cool J,
Little Man,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick May,
The Skatalites,
Depeche Mode,
Q and Not U,
Marc Almond,
PIL,
New Age Steppers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Basic Channel,
EPMD,
8 Eyed Spy,
Magma,
Accadde A,
Graham Central Station,
Easy Going,
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Scratch Acid,
Joensuu 1685,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Camberwell Now,
The United States of America,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Morten Harket,
Arcadia,
Joey Negro,
The Motions,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.