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 Uruguay and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Fugs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Fear,
Pussy Galore,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
Suburban Knight,
Scion,
Avey Tare,
Gregory Isaacs,
Echospace,
Electric Prunes,
Qualms,
Barbara Tucker,
Whodini,
Darondo,
Infiniti,
Groovy Waters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Reagan Youth,
Massinfluence,
Skriet,
The Durutti Column,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Birthday Party,
The United States of America,
The Young Rascals,
Audionom,
The Offenders,
Joe Smooth,
Roxy Music,
Aloha Tigers,
Bauhaus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Morten Harket,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Niagra,
Parry Music,
Theoretical Girls,
Fad Gadget,
Boogie Down Productions,
Alice Coltrane,
Japan,
Jandek,
The Cramps,
Chrome,
Andrew Hill,
Shuggie Otis,
Hoover,
Essential Logic,
AZ,
The Walker Brothers,
Eddi Front,
10cc,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sarah Menescal,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.