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 Benin and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pet Shop Boys to the funk 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Black Bananas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bang On A Can,
Pylon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Beau Brummels,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David Axelrod,
The Raincoats,
Max Romeo,
The Busters,
kango's stein massive,
Shoche,
PIL,
Deadbeat,
Gil Scott Heron,
Matthew Halsall,
Joy Division,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gabor Szabo,
Wings,
Neil Young,
MDC,
Liliput,
Avey Tare,
Monolake,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dual Sessions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Unwound,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Tremeloes,
Mark Hollis,
Chris & Cosey,
Zero Boys,
Model 500,
The Mojo Men,
Stetsasonic,
Khruangbin,
Malaria!,
Ultimate Spinach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Judy Mowatt,
Derrick May,
Magazine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mummies,
The Remains,
Sarah Menescal,
Skarface,
Lou Reed,
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fuzztones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
EPMD,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.