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 Equatorial Guinea and from Philadelphia.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 Amon Düül II to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Isaac Hayes,
Bauhaus,
The Slits,
cv313,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bluetip,
Derrick May,
Circle Jerks,
Alton Ellis,
Yaz,
Sex Pistols,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sandy B,
Mo-Dettes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jacques Brel,
Shuggie Otis,
Public Enemy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Charles Mingus,
Eddi Front,
LL Cool J,
Tomorrow,
Los Fastidios,
Das Ding,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The American Breed,
Rotary Connection,
Livin' Joy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Association,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Stooges,
X-102,
The Young Rascals,
Procol Harum,
Kayak,
Parry Music,
John Holt,
The Modern Lovers,
Talk Talk,
Chrome,
Brand Nubian,
The Moody Blues,
the Swans,
The Five Americans,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Moleskins,
Maleditus Sound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
These Immortal Souls,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.