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 Liechtenstein and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the grunge 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Yellowson,
Agitation Free,
U.S. Maple,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
The Gories,
Crash Course in Science,
T.S.O.L.,
Eli Mardock,
Absolute Body Control,
T. Rex,
The Cowsills,
MC5,
Franke,
the Soft Cell,
LL Cool J,
Lalann,
Junior Murvin,
Sister Nancy,
The Happenings,
The Fortunes,
Dead Boys,
The Last Poets,
Guru Guru,
Sound Behaviour,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hasil Adkins,
Gichy Dan,
Pere Ubu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick Morgan,
Ludus,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
Simply Red,
Pharoah Sanders,
China Crisis,
The Stooges,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
June Days,
Marvin Gaye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Accadde A,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra,
Rotary Connection,
Marcia Griffiths,
Qualms,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mantronix,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Lynne,
New York Dolls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.