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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
The Dave Clark Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
John Coltrane,
The Kinks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Index,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crash Course in Science,
the Swans,
Bad Manners,
Jandek,
FM Einheit,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neu!,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boz Scaggs,
Deadbeat,
Sex Pistols,
Heaven 17,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Qualms,
Dave Gahan,
Procol Harum,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter and Kerry,
E-Dancer,
Eric Copeland,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gun Club,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Urselle,
Chrome,
Mission of Burma,
Basic Channel,
Arthur Verocai,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
The Residents,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Velvet Underground,
Josef K,
The Alarm Clocks,
Freddie Wadling,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Symarip,
The Birthday Party,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Average White Band,
Lyres,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Black Dice,
Patti Smith,
The Young Rascals,
Sonic Youth,
Roxy Music,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.