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 Senegal and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Cecil Taylor,
Susan Cadogan,
Skaos,
Prince Buster,
Jacob Miller,
The Index,
8 Eyed Spy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sonics,
Toni Rubio,
Judy Mowatt,
Brick,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fad Gadget,
Sound Behaviour,
D'Angelo,
the Human League,
Marine Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Association,
Accadde A,
The Fugs,
The Happenings,
Adolescents,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Al Stewart,
The Offenders,
Clear Light,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
Y Pants,
Radiopuhelimet,
Los Fastidios,
Fat Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pharoah Sanders,
Groovy Waters,
Sam Rivers,
These Immortal Souls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eden Ahbez,
Marmalade,
Steve Hackett,
Porter Ricks,
The Litter,
The Wake,
Mission of Burma,
The Detroit Cobras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roxette,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bluetip,
Excepter,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeff Mills,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Youth Brigade,
Dual Sessions,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.