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 Zambia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Manila and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter and Kerry,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
New Age Steppers,
Harry Pussy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Agitation Free,
The Birthday Party,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Model 500,
Basic Channel,
The Fire Engines,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Buckinghams,
Moss Icon,
D'Angelo,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
This Heat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spandau Ballet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Easy Going,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Livin' Joy,
The Moleskins,
Quando Quango,
Parry Music,
Lindisfarne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bluetip,
Judy Mowatt,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blancmange,
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
The Index,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Duran Duran,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
The Black Dice,
Quadrant,
The Cure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Heaven 17,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.