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 Netherlands and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Alton Ellis,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tubeway Army,
Unrelated Segments,
Marine Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bill Wells,
Ten City,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Junior Murvin,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
One Last Wish,
Patti Smith,
Dawn Penn,
Roxy Music,
Newcleus,
Siglo XX,
Basic Channel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joy Division,
Kerrie Biddell,
Japan,
Excepter,
Kaleidoscope,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moby Grape,
Gong,
Chrome,
Tomorrow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Swell Maps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Y Pants,
Fela Kuti,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Smiths,
Simply Red,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eve St. Jones,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yusef Lateef,
Alice Coltrane,
Kenny Larkin,
Drive Like Jehu,
X-102,
June of 44,
Erasure,
The Motions,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.