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 Ghana 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Unwound to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Massinfluence,
Ten City,
Kenny Larkin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funkadelic,
Smog,
Bill Near,
Derrick Morgan,
The American Breed,
Eli Mardock,
D'Angelo,
Von Mondo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Can,
Monolake,
Ornette Coleman,
Stiv Bators,
MC5,
Cecil Taylor,
Yusef Lateef,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jawbox,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monochrome Set,
DJ Sneak,
Depeche Mode,
The Gories,
Alison Limerick,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Technova,
Skriet,
Sight & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Barrington Levy,
The Residents,
Moebius,
The Five Americans,
Camberwell Now,
Deadbeat,
The Motions,
The Move,
Danielle Patucci,
Lucky Dragons,
Maurizio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Beau Brummels,
the Normal,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris Corsano,
Jacob Miller,
Scion,
The Kinks,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Goldenarms,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.