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 Belgium and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Bronski Beat 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Black Pus,
Hashim,
Colin Newman,
T. Rex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
Sparks,
L. Decosne,
Fad Gadget,
Eddi Front,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
Ossler,
Yazoo,
the Bar-Kays,
Stetsasonic,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Hill,
Anakelly,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cramps,
AZ,
Angry Samoans,
The Residents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Pop Group,
Niagra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Near,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dark Day,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
June Days,
Schoolly D,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Tremeloes,
Half Japanese,
Agent Orange,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
The Toasters,
Agitation Free,
Harmonia,
Cybotron,
The Five Americans,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sarah Menescal,
Lyres,
Donald Byrd,
DNA,
Scrapy,
The Real Kids,
Outsiders,
Ludus,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.