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 Rwanda and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Man Parrish to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Thompson Twins,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Todd Terry,
The Skatalites,
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
Erasure,
Hardrive,
Brass Construction,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Technova,
The Dead C,
Reuben Wilson,
Quantec,
Leonard Cohen,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Terry Callier,
Nas,
Piero Umiliani,
Zero Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Real Kids,
Subhumans,
Kurtis Blow,
New Order,
ABBA,
Fad Gadget,
Royal Trux,
The Fuzztones,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sound,
Agitation Free,
Max Romeo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ken Boothe,
Procol Harum,
X-102,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Wake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Groovy Waters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
Masters at Work,
Pantytec,
Popol Vuh,
Barrington Levy,
Arcadia,
The Standells,
Kaleidoscope,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boz Scaggs,
Simply Red,
EPMD,
Alison Limerick,
Ohio Players,
Joensuu 1685,
The Selecter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.